Sellas Life Sciences gains WT1 cancer vaccine rights from Memorial Sloan Kettering
Swiss/Greek pharmaceutical and clinical research group Sellas Life Sciences Group has signed an exclusive global collaboration and license agreement with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) for the development, marketing, and commercialization of MSK's proprietary WT1 cancer vaccine.
"This collaboration underscores Sellas’ commitment to innovative therapies for major unmet medical needs and is of paramount importance and a significant milestone for us," said Angelos Stergiou, chairman and chief executive of the firm, adding:"We believe this will enable us to accelerate the development of the WT1 vaccine, and we would like to congratulate the Memorial Sloan Kettering research team for their superb work identifying very effective peptide sequences for this vaccine."
Initial focus will be leukemia, mesothelioma and myeloma
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