RE: Biontech and TCR12 Jan 2019 15:15
think again you have missed the point, Modi1 will be first to market .. not TCR that still has to go through the preclinical phase a lot of that has to do with the manufacture and proving up of the ""Viral tcr"" components and proving that you can manipulate a patient's blood without contamination ... regulation is about showing that safe working environment same process that OXB has had to go through to manufacture for Novartis. Its Slow and very expensive.
So Moditop TCR has a high Capital cost ...... its saving grace is its way cheaper and safer than Car T which is proving itself commercial and if the MODi1 mouse model is right is just as effective
TCR can never compete with Modi1 ... impossible
so this is about coverage ... how do we build a template that matches patient to
TCR Citrullinated
TCR Homo citrullinated
combinations
and Phenotype balance ...
Modi1
Modi2
Modi3
and its combinations ....
so this Grand Challenge is going to pull all these elements together ... but the majority of the project actually relates to TCR .... because its the one area we can test Moditope "skilfully" in patients without treating the patient
by manipulating patients blood
so i see a model of testing patients blood at all stages of the cancer cycle in hundreds of patients to generate baseline data
the base line data is what is patient's blood responding to ? and can you build markers which would identify what the patient receives as a treatment using Moditope as the base treatment because only moditope hits so many cancer using so few neo antigens ...
so the TCR tests actually is building you a template model ...
patients would then get Modi1, modi2 , modi3 or a combination with some patients going straight onto TCR ...
this is the hard bit from a science point of view to explain to Investors the Modi 1 epitopes VIM ENO and variants will appear in all three vaccines because they are part of the 17 cancers that Modi1 can potentially target but not at 100% efficacy across the board this is why this Template process is being put forward to the Grand Ch.
so we are looking at Moditope as a One Play system ... you cannot break it up and i think Lindy understands that
Of course this is IMHO ....