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2003 JAN 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- PRIMABioMed, Ltd., the cancer and immunotherapy research and therapeutic development company, announced that its Panvax, Ltd., subsidiary has entered into a research collaboration with the Paris-based Institute Pasteur to develop the company's DCtag antigen delivery technology in combination with Institute Pasteur's proprietary malaria proteins.
The immediate goal of the collaboration is to assess the potential of the combined technologies as a malaria vaccine.
DCtag is a platform technology with the potential to boost the immune responses to vaccine and immunotherapy products being developed for both human and animal health. PRIMA's Panvax subsidiary is advancing programs in viral diseases and cancer in order to demonstrate that the DCtag technology is able to induce effective immune responses and protection against disease
The collaboration will expand upon previous preclinical results in which DCtag has demonstrated strong protection from malaria infection in mouse models. Panvax's malaria program will be advanced by assessing the potential of a human malaria vaccine to induce effective immune responses to proteins derived from the human malaria parasite ...