San Francisco, CA, 2 - 5 December 2019
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Dec 213:00
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Uses and clinical application of immune profiling assays for cancer:
WORKSHOP A
The use of novel assays and computational methods to analyse the immune system is a very fast-moving field and it is challenging to keep up with the pace of change. Join our Advances in Immune Profiling Assays workshop on 2nd December for an in depth look at the uses and clinical application of new methods to characterise and profile the human immune system for the accelerated development of new therapies.Topics:·Measuring base-line immune function ·Assessing predictive biomarkers for PD1 / PDL1 immunotherapies·How to assess the efficacy and longevity of cellular therapies·Characterising the tumor microenvironment·Discovery of genomic predictors and genomic alterations that promote or suppress immune response·Discovery and development of novel biomarkers
Bita Sahaf, Technical Director, Stanford CCSU; Correlatives for Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy; Snr Research Scientist, Stanford Cancer Institute
Vanessa Jonsson, Assistant Research Professor, City Of Hope National Medical Center
Dec 213:00
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Advances in adjuvant technology for vaccines:
WORKSHOP B
Vaccine adjuvants have been used successfully for decades to enhance the ability to provoke an immune response of weak antigens and improve the overall potency of vaccines. Join this workshop to explore the latest advances in novel adjuvant technology for vaccines, the value of current adjuvants and how to improve them. Topics:·Adjuvant technology and its impact on vaccine development ·Can next generation adjuvants break tolerance to assist in immune oncology?·Deploying adjuvants for special populations ·Combination adjuvants – how should they be designed and what are the risks·Adjuvating live vaccines·Use of receptor agonists in improving existing adjuvants or designing new novel adjuvants for different animal species·Precision adjuvants; tailoring immune activation for next generation vaccines
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Dec 308:40
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Immunotherapy 2020 and beyond – what are the next frontiers?
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- In the last 10 years ground breaking advances and progress have been made in the treatment of cancer with immunotherapy-based approaches.
- We have seen approvals of cancer vaccines, multiple single agent and combination checkpoint inhibitor agents in a broad range of tumor types, tissue-agnostic immunotherapy and cellular and gene therapies.
- These agents are improving survival and providing cures in some cancer patients.
- Several new immunotherapy advancements, opportunities and challenges are on the horizon.
Dec 309:00
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Joint Presentation: Advances in single cell sequencing and combination of multiple omics data for developing a better understanding of response to immunotherapy and vaccines
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Lacey Kitch, Director, Informatics, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
Dec 309:45
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The use of vaccines and antibodies in biodefense strategies to combat emerging threats
Keynotes
Dec 310:30
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Morning Networking Break
Keynotes
Meet the Investor Speed Networking: Meet, exchange interests and swap business cards with investors in the biotechnology sector. A great opportunity to maximize your time at the event and meet up to 10 investors in 15mins. Investor companies include:
- Biotechnology Value Fund
- SR One
- Healthcare Angels
- New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Immuno-Oncology
- Illumina Vantures
- Medpro Investors
Dec 311:30
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Chair’s Opening Remarks:
Cancer Immunotherapy
Dec 311:30
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Dec 311:40
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Development and validation of biomarkers for diagnosis and prediction of response resistance to treatment
Immune Profiling
Dec 311:40
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Should each patient’s immune system inform their immunotherapy?
Cancer Immunotherapy
- ATLAS™, an autologous immune assay that identifies specific immunogenic neoantigens, is more effective at identifying immunogenic CD4 AND CD8 targets than algorithms
- High variability between patients shows that each individual’s immune system evolves differently throughout their lives
- Immunosuppressive peptides, identified only through ATLAS, can undercut immunity and compromise immune function
Dec 311:40
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Innovating vaccine development in space
New Technology
Dec 311:40
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How are pharmaceutical companies contributing to the fight against antibiotic resistance with the use of vaccines
Vaccine Development
Dec 312:10
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Understanding response and resistance to checkpoint inhibitor therapy and strategies to overcome it
Immune Profiling
Dec 312:10
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Improved identification, prediction and prioritization of cancer vaccine candidates
Cancer Immunotherapy
Dec 312:10
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RosettaAntibodyDesign - a platform for computational antibody design
New Technology
Dec 312:40
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Artificial Intelligence to the rescue: towards personalized, neoantigen-targeted immunotherapeutics
Cancer Immunotherapy
Dec 312:40
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Introducing a new bioparticle platform; design, polyvalence, production and immunomodulatory potential
New Technology
Dec 312:40
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Update on the development and use of a single-dose live oral cholera vaccine
Vaccine Development
Sean Bennett, Senior Director Of Clinical Development and Medical Affairs, Emergent BioSolutions
Dec 312:55
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Development of EcoCRM®, a new GMP CRM197 carrier protein
New Technology
Dec 313:10
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Networking lunch and poster session
Keynotes
Innovation & Start up Zone – meet emerging biotechs and discover their innovative platforms and novel technologies in the vaccine & immunotherapy space. Taking place in the exhibition area. Start-up companies include; Meissa Vaccines, Inflammatix, BioGraph 55, Avalia Immunotherapies
Dec 314:10
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A paradigm shift: Cancer therapy with peptide-based B-cell epitopes and peptide immunotherapeutics targeting multiple solid tumor types
Cancer Immunotherapy
- Development of new paradigm shifting cancer immune-therapies
- translational strategies from basic preclinical studies to clinical trials
- detailed pipeline/ portfolio of validated B-cell peptide vaccines
- Development of combinatorial immunotherapeutic strategies
Dec 314:10
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Targeting highly conserved influenza virus epitopes with self-assembled peptides
New Technology
- A new vaccine platform is being developed that targets B cell epitopes derived from host and microbial proteins.
- Peptides synthesized with epitopes from the viral M2e, neuraminidase, and hemagglutinin stem proteins induce protective antibody responses in challenged mice.
- These results suggest a path forward for the development of a universal influenza vaccine.
Dr Chris Clegg, President, Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, TRIA Bioscience
Dec 314:10
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Development of a bioconjugate vaccine against E. coli
Vaccine Development
Dec 314:40
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Pfizer’s vaccine immunotherapy combination regimen for cancer
Cancer Immunotherapy
Dec 314:40
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Vaccine development in Chikungunya, a severe disease with debilitating long-term effects and global outbreak potential
New Technology
Dec 314:40
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Prophylactic and therapeutic vaccine approach targeting C. difficile infection and relapse
Vaccine Development
Dec 315:10
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Overview of Immune Epitope Database
Immune Profiling
Overview of Immune Epitope Database
- What does the IEDB do?
- How to access data
- Predictive tools
- How does this integrate into other databases?
Dec 315:10
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Panel: Novel approaches for the delivery of oncolytic viruses and genes
Cancer Immunotherapy
Dec 315:10
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Preclinical development of peptide-based checkpoint agonists that enhance vaccine immunogenicity
New Technology
Dec 315:10
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Toxoid Based Multivalent Vaccine for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus
Vaccine Development
Dec 315:40
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Susceptible or Immune? A CMV T cell assay accurately predicts patient status
Immune Profiling
- Cellular immunity is key to controlling many viral infections, particularly in high risk populations.
- A flow cytometry based, intracellular cytokine detection method has been developed and validated to measure CD4 and CD8 T cell responses to CMV antigen.
- Clinical studies have demonstrated strong sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive values and negative predictive values for CMV viremia and disease.
Dec 316:40
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Induction of innate immunity against bacterial infection
Immune Profiling
Dec 316:40
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Immulytic; achieving personalized systemic neoantigen vaccination directly in the patient
Cancer Immunotherapy
Praveen Bommareddy, Transnational Research Lead, Replimune
Dec 316:40
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Oral Norovirus Tablet Vaccine
Vaccine Development
Dec 317:10
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Developing and utilizing positional scanning combinatorial libraries for T-lymphocyte antigen discovery
Immune Profiling
- General concepts and illustration of positional scanning combinatorial libraries composed of trillions of peptides
- T cell driven antigen identification approach integrates the screening results of positional scanning libraries and protein databases
- Examples of the elucidation of the peptide and antigen specificity of T cells with unknown specificity
Dec 317:10
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Advantages of HSV-based oncolytic virus therapies for the treatment of solid tumors
Cancer Immunotherapy
Andreas Niethammer, Senior Vice President, Head of Clin Development, Immunotherapy Solid Tumors, Sorrento Therapeutics Inc
Dec 317:10
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Vaccinating against the poverty-related neglected diseases
Vaccine Development
Dec 317:40
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Human in vitro modeling to inform precision vaccines for vulnerable populations
Immune Profiling
Dec 317:40
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Armed and dangerous against cancer: TGF-beta trap and personalized oncolytic adenoviruses
Cancer Immunotherapy
- Positive clinical data from first two patients treated with personalized i.e., neoantigen enhanced oncolytic adenoviruses
- Data from TGF-beta trap virus, which is only months away from a Phase 1 trial, that shows abscopal anticancer activity and evidence of cold-to-hot tumor transformation
- Biodistribution data from intravenous and intratumoral administration of the TGF-beta trap virus, which demonstrates persistent non-negligible serum levels of the TGF-beta trap
Dec 317:40
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Identification of novel mycobacterial factors involved in virulence and evasion of host immune responses in tuberculosis
Vaccine Development
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Dec 408:30
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Chairs Opening Remarks:
Cancer Antibodies and Small Molecules and Combinations
Dec 408:40
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Pre-clinical toxicology considerations for vaccine development
Clinical Development
Dec 408:40
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Recurrent Stage 4 Cancer: A patient’s journey and hope for the future
Cancer Antibodies and Small Molecules and Combinations
Dr Chester Kitchen, Cancer Patient Advocate, Cancer Patient Advocate
Dec 408:40
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Opportunities and challenges for integrating delivery technologies into cancer immunotherapy
Immunotherapy Bioprocessing, Manufacture & Delivery
Michael Mitchell, Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Dec 409:10
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Novel correlates of protection against pandemic influenza
Clinical Development
Dec 409:10
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Combinations and checkpoint inhibitors; what’s working?
Cancer Antibodies and Small Molecules and Combinations
- Landscape of combination therapies – why aren’t they working?
- PD1 resistance – what are the major mechanisms we need to focus on?
Dec 409:40
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Broader protective influenza vaccine
Vaccine Development
Dec 409:40
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Engineering bispecific IgM antibodies as cancer therapeutics
Immunotherapy Bioprocessing, Manufacture & Delivery
Dec 410:10
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Protection against Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) by maternal immunization
Vaccine Development
Kathrin Jansen, Senior Vice President And Chief Scientific Officer, Pfizer
Dec 410:10
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Executing animal rule studies in high containment
Clinical Development
Dec 410:10
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Overcoming the immunosuppressive TME by targeting Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells
Cancer Antibodies and Small Molecules and Combinations
Dec 410:10
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Design & manufacture of next generation biotherapeutics with a scalable biochemical protein synthesis platform
Immunotherapy Bioprocessing, Manufacture & Delivery
- Introduction to Sutro’s proprietary Cell Free Protein Expression Technology.
- How the rapid cycle time of the CF reaction allows for high throughput screening of designed structural variants, including incorporation of non-natural amino acids, to enable development of optimal proteins for both function and manufacturability.
- Demonstration of successful scale up from microliters at bench scale to 1000 liters in a GMP manufacturing environment.
Dec 411:30
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Advances in the intratumoral administration of cancer agents
Keynotes
Dec 411:30
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Best practices for outsourcing manufacture of biologics through CMOs
Keynotes
Dec 411:30
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Generation of antibodies to novel targets
Keynotes
Dec 411:30
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Managing process improvements for vaccines
Keynotes
Dec 411:30
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Meet the investor: your questions answered
Keynotes
Dec 411:30
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Strategies to improve patient stratification by interrogating the tumor microenvironment
Keynotes
Dec 411:30
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The road map to NIH’s grant application process. How to find out more about the current programs available
Keynotes
Dec 414:30
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A novel live attenuated RSV vaccine
Vaccine Development
Dec 414:30
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CD40 agonists to enhance antigen presentation, resulting in improved quality and magnitude of T-cell responses
Cancer Antibodies and Small Molecules and Combinations
Dec 414:30
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Designing cutting edge vaccine and biotechnology manufacturing platforms
Immunotherapy Bioprocessing, Manufacture & Delivery
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Charles Heffernan, Former Supply Chain Transformation And Technology Innovation Lead, Gsk And Member, BioPhorum Operations Group
Dec 415:00
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A novel WT1-targeting multivalent heteroclitic epitope immunotherapeutic: clinical update
Cancer Antibodies and Small Molecules and Combinations
· WT1 antigen biology· Overview of galinpepimut-S technology· Updates in galinpepimut-S clinical data· Upcoming phase 3 trial
Dec 415:30
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Designing Immuno-Oncology trials to maximizing clinical outcomes and chances of success
Clinical Development
Dec 415:30
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Leveraging bispecific molecules for the combination immunotherapy of cancer
Cancer Antibodies and Small Molecules and Combinations
Jon Wigginton, Chief Medical Officer And Senior Vice President Of Clinical Development, MacroGenics
Dec 416:30
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Developing Antibody-Drug-Conjugates to unique embryonic cancer stem cell targets
Cancer Antibodies and Small Molecules and Combinations
Dec 417:00
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Clinical development of next generation Antibody Drug Conjugates
Cancer Antibodies and Small Molecules and Combinations
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Dec 509:10
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Clinical Trials in an International Setting
Clincal Development
Willem Hanekom, Deputy Director, Tb Vaccines,, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Dec 509:10
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Unleashing the potential of gene therapy using the non-viral UltraCAR-T platform for hematological and solid tumors
Engineered Cancer Therapies
Dec 509:10
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Development of a versatile, single-injection vaccine formulation platform that can enhance immune response
Vaccine Delivery, Bioprocessing & Manufacture
Eric Appel, Assistant Professor of Material Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Dec 509:10
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Passive immunity strategies in infectious diseases
Infectious Disease Antibodies
Dec 510:10
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Experimental human challenge models used in respiratory track diseases and malaria
Clincal Development
Dec 510:10
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Anti-Ebola mAbs currently being used in the Ebola outbreak in DRC
Infectious Disease Antibodies
Dec 510:25
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A unique platform for research scale to mid-scale, host-independent biological manufacturing
Vaccine Delivery, Bioprocessing & Manufacture
Dec 511:10
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Designing Immuno-Oncology trials to maximizing clinical outcomes and chances of success
Clincal Development
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Dec 511:10
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Targeting natural neoantigens through adoptive cellular therapies
Engineered Cancer Therapies
Dec 511:10
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Monoclonal antibody development against infectious diseases in pediatric populations
Infectious Disease Antibodies
Dec 511:40
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Identification of novel T-cell receptor targets and specificity profiling of TCRs tested in the clinic to develop safe & effective TCR therapies
Engineered Cancer Therapies
Dec 511:40
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Challenges in vaccine manufacture in LMICs
Vaccine Delivery, Bioprocessing & Manufacture
Dec 511:40
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Antibody-based therapy to combat Staphylococcus aureus infections
Infectious Disease Antibodies
Dec 512:10
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Immuno-STAT – A novel platform for the selective modulation of antigen-specific T-cells
Engineered Cancer Therapies
Dec 512:10
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Development of antibiotic drug conjugates
Infectious Disease Antibodies
Dec 514:20
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Creating a public-private partnership to advance global health
Keynotes
Dec 514:50
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Microbiome and epigenetic imprinting of immune responses to vaccination in humans
Keynotes
Dec 515:20
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What will be the impact of moving towards earlier lines of therapy in cancer?
Keynotes
- How will this change how we think about resistance?
- What happens when we reach maximal amount of t-cell responses?
- If immune capability decreases with subsequent lines of therapy is it a good idea to delay? Will investigational therapies preclude a patient from getting chemo?
- Modifying the immune system to respond to immunotherapy
- How does immunotherapy interact with radiation?
- How will this affect drug candidate pipelines?
last published: 20/Aug/19 15:45 GMT
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