On April 17, 2018 Advaxis, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADXS), a late-stage biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of immunotherapy products, reported the presentation of ADXS-HOT preclinical data in a poster discussion entitled "Targeting Shared Hotspot Cancer Mutations with a Listeria monocytogenes Immunotherapy Induce Potent Anti-Tumor Immunity" at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) (Free AACR Whitepaper) Annual Meeting underway in Chicago (Press release, Advaxis, APR 17, 2018, View Source [SID1234525430]). The discussion, held yesterday, was led by Daniel O. Villarreal, Ph.D., Principal Scientist at Advaxis. The ADXS-HOT franchise leverages the Company’s proprietary Lm Technology to target common mutations in tumor driver genes.
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This study’s objective was to identify and target common (public or shared) mutations (hotspots) and to determine if the ADXS-HOT platform could effectively target those hotspots and control tumor growth. Results indicate that ADXS-HOT could achieve this in preclinical models against single and multi-target constructs. The full abstract is available here: View Source
"The results of this preclinical work with ADXS-HOT represent an exciting opportunity that may allow us to develop disease-specific immunotherapies that have the potential to be effective against multiple targets, capable of generating high-avidity T cells against shared of public mutations, as well as multiple proprietary highly immunogenic cancer-testes and oncofetal antigens for multiple tumor types," said Robert G. Petit, Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of Advaxis. "Additionally, the results show increased functionality and resiliency in CD8 T cells upon restimulation, indicating the potential not only to increase the number and frequency of CD8 T cells, but to strengthen them."
About ADXS-HOT
ADXS-HOT leverages the Company’s proprietary Lm technology to target common "hotspot" mutations. ADXS-HOT products are designed to target acquired shared or "public" mutations in tumor driver genes along with cancer-testes and oncofetal tumor-associated antigens that are shared by multiple patients. Although ADXS-HOT has not been tested in patients, in theory, products would be designed to treat all patients with a particular type of cancer, without the need for pre-treatment testing, biopsy, DNA sequencing or diagnostic testing.