STUTTGART, Germany I January 25, 2018 I A tissue-based map of the human proteome suggests that about 75 % are intracellular or secreted targets not accessible for conventional monoclonal antibody and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy (Uhlen et al., Science, 2015). Thus, the large pool of intracellular protein targets,...

STUTTGART, Germany I June 23, 2017 I Overlooked for many years, RNA languished as the ugly stepchild of nucleic acid vaccine development and was thought to be a poor choice for a therapeutic agent given its short half-life in vivo and its immunogenicity. But two of the main problems of...

STUTTGART, Germany I January 25, 2017 I The acquisition of oncolytic virus company BioVex by Amgen in late 2011 for up to US$ 1 bln has been a game changer for the field of oncolytic viruses, now recognized as a promising new therapeutic approach for cancer treatment. The approval of...

STUTTGART, Germany I August 10, 2016 I Immunotherapy of B-cell malignancies with specifically targeted autologous T-cells most probably will see the first adoptive cell therapy products approved in the year 2017. Novartis, Kite Pharma and Juno Therapeutics are in a head-to-head race to be first on the market with anti-CD19...

STUTTGART, Germany I May 13, 2016 I Immunotherapy of cancer with direct or indirect use of T-cells is one of the most exciting fields in cancer research. Direct T-cell therapy implies the ex vivo engineering of autologous or allogeneic T-cells for tumor targeting by chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) or T-cell...