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2004 JAN 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Introgen Therapeutics, Inc., (INGN) announced that its vaccine therapy, INGN 225, will be evaluated at two U.S. cancer centers in a phase I/II study to treat patients with advanced breast cancer.
The trial will be conducted by Drs. Kenneth H. Cowan and Elizabeth Reed at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida will prepare the vaccine and participate in immunologic evaluations. Enrollment will begin with patients with invasive breast cancer who will receive chemotherapy, in addition to the INGN 225 vaccine.
The INGN 225 vaccine was developed based on work by Dr. Dmitry Gabrilovich, associate professor of oncology at the Moffitt Cancer Center, and Dr. David Carbone, professor of oncology at The Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, and is exclusively licensed to Introgen Therapeutics.
Gabrilovich said, "A goal of cancer immunologists is the development of viable cancer vaccines. As we progress into human trials for different types of cancer, we are moving closer to achieving that goal. With the high incidence and ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Advexin vaccine therapy to begin phase I/II.