Hopefully glymab and modi will save the day13 Dec 2024 11:16
****Scancell licenses antibody from CRT, Phil H (current CEO) provides comment as director of BD at CRT (the backbone was developed in 1994)****
GB00B39J5N6310 August 2010 Scancell Holdings Plc (`Scancell Holdings' or the `Company') Antibody Licence Agreement with Cancer Research Technology
Scancell Holdings Plc, (AIM:SCLP), the developer of therapeutic cancer vaccines, and Cancer Research Technology Ltd (`CRT') - Cancer Research UK's commercialisation and development arm - today announce that they have signed an agreement under which Scancell has been granted a licence to use a human antibody known as 105AD7.
105AD7 is a human monoclonal antibody that mimics the complement regulatory protein, CD55. The antibody was discovered and originally developed at the University of Nottingham with support from Cancer Research UK and has previously been evaluated in clinical trials for osteosarcoma. The agreement will give Scancell a worldwide licence to use 105AD7 for the development of new ImmunoBody® vaccines for any immunotherapy indication.
The licence will be restricted to the use of the antibody as a framework for future ImmunoBody® vaccines.
****Original work that suggested that variable regions of antibodies can be used to engineer in t cell epitopes**** (1993)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7689626/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7524883/
****Epitopes licensed non exclusively from NIH****
https://www.techtransfer.nih.gov/sites/default/files/documents/pdfs/Licenses.pdf
Also,
"Scancell's IP position around SCIB1 has been further strengthened by the signing of a worldwide non-exclusive licensing agreement with the National Institutes of Health (`NIH'), an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, for use of the melanoma antigens TRP-2 and gp100, developed in the laboratory of Steven A. Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D., at the National Cancer Institute. These antigens will be utilised as key components of SCIB1."
https://www.lse.co.uk/rns/SCLP/final-results-zcrh0gtru92tqpb.html
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Scancell mostly put existing parts together, they own neither the parts nor the method. That's why they need iscib1+ to work BETTER (avidimab helping with t cell responses qualifies as surprising and non-obvious as it is not what it was discovered/developed to do at the mechanistic level). That is why they have a hard time licensing the platform early, it is all about IP. Hopefully glymabs and modi save the day. I would focus on scib1 that has orphan drug in the US, not going to make SC a multibillion dollar company but it could at least fund the pipeline.
PS if iscib1+ does prove to be better, that's a different story. And it would add huge value to the avidimab platform as well, so not just about the scib platform.
But I wouldn't bet on that yet
How's that for constructive? Like I said, it takes some effort and intellectual competence to recognise what is contructive and what is not. The truth is yo