Avid Bioservices Inc (CDMO)

[biopharm]

Corp, you should view the bigger picture and ask yourself, why is Merck so anxious to stay close as possible to combining Keytruda with Bavituximab ?

You have failed to show proof that the drug, Bavituximab ...or any PS Targeting drug ever failed vs understanding the politics in how it was stopped in phase III Sunrise trial ?

I will give you a hint, Merck with ties INTO the IDMC that stopped the Sunrise trial : )

Remember, it was not Peregrine that stopped it...it was the IDMC

Ooops, was I suppose to say that lol ....the problem is I am not on anyones payroll exept myself so I care less in how long it takes for the puzzle pieces to escape, as Shawshank redemption ...where one sits and digs and digs and DIGS

Everyone has a price though and my account could increase one morning where even I stop but it is interesting and I see why PS Targeting was sabotaged time and time again in various ways

The fines and penalties that Big Pharma and hedge funds etc pay are miniscule for the value paid back on the other end ...no ethics, but that is another problem
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Bells Palsy patients should be infuriated if their MDs don't seek the best treatments and the increase in MDSCs and ROS etc remains a problem where PS Targeting helps.

So we have some concrete ties building and Sard Verbinnen hired to create an illusion of all illusions ...I wonder how many hedge funds have hired Sard Verbinnen in the past ?

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Bells Palsy ROS increase
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5471655/#!po=1.85185

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However, additional properties of these cells, including increased reactive oxygen species and inflammatory cytokine production, as well as their universal expansion in nearly all inflammatory conditions, suggest that MDSCs may be more of a normal component of the inflammatory response (â??emergency myelopoiesisâ?) than simply a pathological response to a growing tumor.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3060988/#!po=72.0779

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February 9, 2015

Newly Presented Data Shows That Peregrine Pharmaceuticals' PS-Targeting Antibodies Significantly Enhance Anti-Tumor Activity of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors PD-1 and CTLA-4 in Models of Breast Cancer and Melanoma

PS-Targeting Antibodies Block Tumor Suppression of Immune System Allowing Development of Robust Immune Responses Resulting in Statistically Significant Improvement in Anti-Tumor Activity; Specific Effects Seen in Decreased Levels of MDSCs and Other Immunosuppressive Lymphocytes and Increases in Tumor Fighting Immune Cells

TUSTIN, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 02/09/15 -- Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: PPHM) (NASDAQ: PPHMP) today announced preclinical data presentations showing that the PS-targeting antibody equivalent to bavituximab combined with an anti-PD-1 antibody displayed statistically significant improvement in tumor fighting immune cells, activation signals and cytokines in a model of melanoma compared to anti-PD-1 alone. Moreover, cells that suppress the immune system from recognizing tumors, such as myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs), were reduced by more than 40% in the combination with the PS-targeting antibody versus anti-PD-1 alone. These data, further validating the immune-stimulatory mechanism of bavituximab, are outlined in an oral and poster presentation by Bruce Freimark, Ph.D., director, preclinical oncology research at Peregrine, to be made at the Keystone Tumor Immunology: Multidisciplinary Science Driving Combination Therapy meeting being held February 8-13, 2015 in Banff, Alberta, Canada. Peregrine's lead PS-targeting antibody, bavituximab, is currently being evaluated in second-line non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) as part of the SUNRISE pivotal Phase III clinical trial.

"These data build on our growing body of encouraging combination data and strengthen our clinical development plans as we evaluate the direction of combination therapy trials utilizing bavituximab and other checkpoint inhibitors" said Jeff T. Hutchins, Ph.D., vice president of preclinical research at Peregrine. "Our goals are to modify a tumor environment that allows more patients to respond to conventional and immune therapy. As the tumor environment switches from immuno-suppressive to immuno-stimulatory with bavituximab treatment, we believe the addition of other checkpoint inhibitors, like anti-PD-1, may increase the number of patients responding to therapy."

In the presentations titled: "Antibody-Mediated Blockade of Phosphatidylserine Enhances the Anti-Tumor Activity of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors by Affecting Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells (MDSC) and Lymphocyte Populations in the Tumor Microenvironment", Dr. Freimark and his research group, along with colleagues from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center led by Xianming Huang, Ph.D., demonstrate that in immunocompetent preclinical models of breast cancer and melanoma, the combination of PS-targeting antibodies and anti-CTLA-4 and anti-PD1 antibodies demonstrate statistically significant anti-tumor responses than either anti-CTLA-4 or anti-PD-1 antibody alone. New data presented show statistically significant changes in levels of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs), a type of white blood cell implicated in killing tumor cells, in the PS-targeting and anti-PD-1 combination group over single treatment alone in a melanoma model. Specifically, data show increases in a number of markers used to determine immune activation, including CD3 and CD8 cells expressing PD-1, Lag-3 and CD137 (4-1BB). Furthermore, data show that CD8 T cells in the tumor had increased production of IFN-gamma and TNF-a, both known to assist in promoting immune activation and Granzyme-B which is involved in direct tumor killing.

http://ir.peregrineinc.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=895363