RE: Re: the kahmooner's GSK-Oxford Uni post which is now deleted...28 Jan 2025 15:48
Unless it is extended, the IP protection for the -(D)Ala-(L)Pro- dipeptide that is the core of the pre|CISION technology will expire in 2035 and only patent applications for new drug candidates that are filed before then will get exclusive Avacta (or follow-on company) IP protection. That is my longterm timescale. I don't necessarily expect to be around to see it.
It should be remembered that pre|CISION substrates (PDCs certainly and AffDCs also to a large degree) are low tech - cheap, quick and easy to make and with universal, off-the-shelf applicability. That is in contrast to ADCs. Vaccine approaches are likely to be high tech, with a correspondingly high cost, at least initially, in order to recoup the original investment and return a profit. Who would get them? Would they catch all cancers? Would they cure late-stage cancers? These questions have not been answered, or often even asked. A method of universal certain cure for all cancers would be great for humanity but we are a long way from there - and also, some may say fortunately, a long way from an epidemic of truly epic proportions of dementia in the elderly who have survived never succumbing to cancer.