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Advaxis Advances Personalized Cancer Vaccines With Eye On Manufacturing Time, Cost

 
• By Mandy Jackson

Advaxis is developing – now with help from partner Amgen – a personalized immunotherapy strategy with each patient's cancer vaccine based on their own tumor's specific neoepitopes.

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The struggle for personalized cancer therapies – and the downfall for one high-profile company – has been costly, complicated and time-consuming manufacturing, but one of the potential advantages of Advaxis Inc.'s vaccines targeting patient-specific neoepitopes is a simplified manufacturing process.

The Princeton, New Jersey-based company recently entered into a collaboration with Amgen Inc. that's worth $65m up front and...

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