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MedImmune, Advaxis Test Combo Therapy

by Rick Mullin
July 28, 2014 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 92, Issue 30

AstraZeneca’s MedImmune unit will collaborate with Advaxis, a U.S.-based specialist in developing cancer immunotherapies. The pair plans Phase I and II trials that combine MedImmune’s MEDI4736, an anti-PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibitor, with Advaxis’s ADXS-HPV vaccine as a treatment for patients with certain cervical, head, and neck cancers associated with human papillomavirus. Advaxis will fund and conduct the study. MedImmune has first right of negotiation for further development of combinations involving MEDI4736 and ADXS-HPV.

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