Cancer Vaccines

UF scientists to work with German firm in prostate cancer treatment research

Published in Vaccine Weekly, July 9th, 2008

University of Florida department of urology officials signed an agreement Tuesday to collaborate with the German biopharmaceutical company CureVac to test an experimental therapy for advanced prostate cancer patients who no longer respond to traditional treatment.

CureVac — which specializes in the therapeutic application of messenger RNA, a biomolecule that transfers genetic information from nuclear DNA to cellular protein production machinery — is developing a stabilized mRNA-derived vaccine for treatment of prostate cancer.

UF researchers will conduct a phase 1/2 clinical trial of the therapy in patients from the United States with metastatic...

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