“Cancer Vaccines: New Targeting Strategies, Brighter Prospects”
An interview with Philip M Arlen, CEO and President of Precision Biologics, was included in a recent article describing the role of monoclonal antibodies in enhancing the effectiveness of cancer vaccines. This interview was published on August 1st, 2024, in the magazine Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News, under the topic “Cancer Vaccines: New Targeting Strategies, Brighter Prospects”.
In this interview, Dr. Arlen explained the rationale of using monoclonal antibodies for boosting vaccine effectiveness, with a particular focus on the several mechanisms of action of our lead monoclonal antibody NEO-201.
The ability of NEO-201 to specifically bind to and kill cells expressing truncated core 1 O-glycans, including immunosuppressive cells, makes NEO-201 a very promising immunotherapeutic. NEO-201 can mediate the killing of cancer cells but can also mediate the killing of immunosuppressive cells that impair the immune responses to immunotherapy and cancer vaccines.
As a proof of this concept, preliminary correlative studies performed on blood samples from cancer patients with tumors refractory to prior immune checkpoint inhibitors, enrolled in our current phase 2 clinical trial combining NEO-201 with pembrolizumab, showed that NEO-201 led to a reduction in circulating immunosuppressive cells in cancer patients with durable stabilization of their disease.
Given this clinical evidence, dr. Arlen suggests that “NEO-201 is ideal as a cocktail in combination with vaccines, checkpoint inhibitors, and anticancer drugs and that NEO-201 could really enhance the activity of these treatments by shutting down these immunosuppressive cells and allowing the treatments to work better.”
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