OncoSec and Dana-Farber partner on CAR-T therapies for solid tumors

28 June 2019
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California, USA-based biotech firm OncoSec Medical (Nasdaq: ONCS), a company developing intratumoral cancer immunotherapies, entered into a new collaboration with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to develop CAR T-cell therapies targeting solid tumors in patients with triple negative breast cancer, among other indications.

Shares of OncoSec were up 4% at $2.60 in late morning trading on Thursday following the announcement. Just a couple of months ago the company also entered into a collaboration with Duke University School of Medicine to evaluate the use of OncoSec's proprietary TAVOPLUS (enhanced interleukin (IL)-12 DNA-plasmid).

Specifically, the agreement partners OncoSec with the  Marasco Laboratory, led by Dr Wayne Marasco, a world-renowned antibody engineering expert who specializes in CAR T-cell therapies.

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