Commenting on PharmaCyte’s upcoming clinical trial, renowned oncologist and clinician Dr. Manuel Hidalgo, who will be the Principal Investigator for the trial, said, “The primary goal of the study is to determine the efficacy of this approach, compared to a standard of care treatment, in controlling LAPC. If this endpoint is met, the technology will be validated as a therapeutic option in patients with LAPC.”
Dr. Hidalgo also knows the significance of shrinking tumors in patients with LAPC and stated, “Patients who undergo a successful operation may be indeed cured of the disease. So, if this strategy is able to increase the number of patients that can undergo surgery to remove their previously inoperable tumors, that could be a very important finding.”
Prof. Walter H. Gunzburg, the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Austrianova, said of targeted cellular therapies and specifically Cell-in-a-Box®, which Austrianova helped to develop, “This is the future of medicine, this is the new generation of how we’re going to be able to treat diseases—not only cancer but a whole plethora of other diseases. We’re going to be able to take cells; we’re going to program them to do what we want, and we’re going to put them back into patients’ bodies and they’re going to react to signals in the patient to produce medicines in the right way. So, what PharmaCyte is doing and what we’re doing with PharmaCyte is we’re actually taking the first few bold steps for the new medicines for the next generation.”
Validating the Cell-in-a-Box® technology in an FDA clinical trial will confirm that PharmaCyte has a role in shaping the future of treating diseases using cellular therapies. As monumental as it would be for PharmaCyte to shrink what were once considered inoperable tumors to the point that they are now made operable, validation of the technology is equally as monumental for patients worldwide who suffer from other hard-to-treat diseases and who could now find hope in Cell-in-a-Box® to specifically treat some of those diseases.
