Avid Bioservices Inc (CDMO)

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AACR’17(April2-4): 4 PPHM Abstracts (2 w/MemSloan, 1 w/Immunovaccine). Add Immunovaccine Inc. (Halifax https://www.imvaccine.com ) to the list of collaborators.

Apr1-5 2017: “AACR 2017”, WashDC http://www.aacr.org/Meetings/Pages/MeetingDetail.aspx?EventItemID=105
Full Abstracts to be posted to the AACR Online Itinerary Planner 3-1-17 4:30pm.
...TITLES Only ( http://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/4292 ):

4-2-17/1pm #574 - Session: CHECKPOINTS 1
“Phosphatidylserine Targeting Antibody in Combination with Tumor Radiation & Immune Checkpoint Blockade Promotes Anti-Tumor Activity in Mouse B16 Melanoma”
=> Sadna Budhu 1, Olivier De Henau 1, Roberta Zappasodi 1, Rachel Giese 1, Luis F. Campesato 1, Christopher Barker 1, Bruce Freimark 2, Jeff Hutchins 2, Jedd D. Wolchok 1, Taha Merghoub [Memorial Sloan Kettering]
1=Memorial Sloan Kettering CC, NYC [ http://www.mskcc.org/research-areas/labs/jedd-wolchok ]
2=Peregrine Pharmaceuticals

4-3-17/8am #1651 - Session: TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT & CHECKPOINTS
“Targeting Phosphatidylserine in Combination with Adoptive T Cell Transfer Eliminates Advanced Tumors without Off-Target Toxicities in a Melanoma Preclinical Model”
=> Daniel Hirschhorn-Cymerman 1, Sara Sara Schad 1, Sadna Budhu 1, Zhong Hong 1, Xia Yang 1, Hutchins T. Jeff 2, Bruce D. Freimark 2, Michael J. Gray 2, Jedd Wolchok 1, Taha Merghoub [Memorial Sloan Kettering]
1=Memorial Sloan Kettering CC, NYC [ http://www.mskcc.org/research-areas/labs/jedd-wolchok ]
2=Peregrine Pharmaceuticals

4-4-17/8am #3652 - Session: BITES BISPECIFICS & CHECKPOINTS
“Combinational Activity of LAG3 & PD-1 Targeted Therapies is Significantly Enhanced by the Addition of Phosphatidylserine Targeting Antibodies and Establishes an Anti-Tumor Memory Response in Murine Triple Negative Breast Cancer”
=> Michael J. Gray, Jian Gong, Jeff Hutchins, Bruce Freimark (Peregrine Pharmaceuticals)

4-4-17/8am #3657 - Session: BITES BISPECIFICS & CHECKPOINTS
”Phosphatidylserine-Targeting Antibodies Enhance Anti-Tumor Activity of a Tumor Vaccine in a HPV-Induced Tumor Model”
=> Genevieve Weir 1, Tara Quinton 1, Jeff T. Hutchins 2, Bruce D. Freimark 2, Marianne Stanford (Immunovaccine)
1=Immunovaccine, Inc., Halifax, NS, Canada [ https://www.imvaccine.com ]
2=Peregrine Pharmaceuticals

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2-10-17: Preclin. Anti-PS work w/collab’s MemSloan, Duke, MDA, Rutgers, Wistar, UTSW, U.Cal/Irvine, Immunovaccine Inc. http://tinyurl.com/h5avlw3

POSSIBLE GENESIS OF IMMUNOVACCINE COLLAB???
11-9-15 SITC'15: New Bavi+Checkpoint Inhibitors preclin. data (UTSW/DUKE's Herbert K. Lyerly) http://tinyurl.com/pbof95w
...Also, collab. with Dr. Bernard Fox (Immunotherapist/Earle A. Chiles Res.Inst.) on new Immuno-Profiling Clinical Test (Opal 6-plex quantitative IF Assay), PPHM roundtable with Raymond Birge (Rutgers), Douglas Graham (Emory), Dmitry Gabrilovich (Wistar), Rolf Brekken (UTSW), Maria Karasarides (AstraZeneca) - ”Combining Bavi w/anti-PD-1 significantly enhanced O/S… significant incr. CD45+, CD8+ and CD3+ T-cells… led a prolonged anti-tumor immune response which protected the animals against a re-challenge w/same tumor.”