RE: Ivy30 Oct 2018 12:12
From sept RNS
The Company's second Moditope programme, Modi-2, is currently in pre-clinical development and is expected to address multiple cancer indications. Modi-2 will be the subject of new intellectual property applications with a view to extend the Company's dominant patent position in relation to post-translational modifications of cellular proteins and their application in the treatment of cancer.
From Placing RNS
Modi-2 targets multiple solid tumours (including oesophageal, gastric, colorectal, breast (non-TNBC), cervical, prostate, liver, renal, endometrial, bladder and thyroid tumours) and pre-clinical development of selected epitopes is planned during 2018. The Company expects to characterise its Modi-2 development candidate and begin GMP manufacturing in H2 2019. Both Modi-1 and Modi-2 will target tumours that are generally unresponsive to checkpoint inhibitor therapy. In addition, an international, multi-disciplinary team of leading cancer immunotherapy scientists in Europe and the US, led by Professor Lindy Durrant, Chief Scientific Officer of Scancell, and in partnership with Genentech, BioNTech and ISA Pharmaceuticals, has been shortlisted to the final stages of CRUK's Grand Challenge. Modi-3 forms a central element of the team's proposal with a focus on head and neck cancer, glioblastoma, lung, and pancreatic cancer, all of which currently have a poor prognosis.