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Cancer Vaccines
AlphaVax Announces Promising Results in Melanoma Studies
May 27th, 2009
AlphaVax announced the presentation of promising results from a collaboration with researchers at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC). Francesca Avogadri, Ph.D., a Research Fellow in the Department of Medicine at MSKCC presented data at the American Association of Immunologists Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington. Results from pre-clinical studies conducted at MSKCC demonstrate the ability of AlphaVax's virus-like replicon vector particles (VRP) encoding melanoma-specific tumor antigens to reduce melanoma tumor burden in a state-of-the-art murine melanoma model. Jedd D. Wolchok, M.D., Ph.D., Lab Head and faculty member at MSKCC, is a...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-05-27)
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