ROCKVILLE, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/allergies?src=hash" target="_blank"gt;#allergieslt;/agt;–Immunomic Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that it will participate at
the World Vaccine Congress Washington being held in Washington, D.C.
April 14-17, 2019. Teri Heiland, Ph.D., Immunomic’s Senior Vice
President of Research and Development, will participate in a panel
entitled “Strategies to enhance vaccine acceptance in future
generations.”
In addition to its panel participation, Immunomic has been nominated for
the World Vaccine Congress Vaccine Industry Excellence (ViE) Award for
Best New Vaccine Technology/Platform. The winner of the award is
expected to be announced during the conference.
The World Vaccine Congress Washington is a multi-faceted conference
experience with over 300 industry leading speaker, 10 conferences, 8
workshops, 100+ exhibitors providing the most exciting vaccine event on
the planet.
Panel details are as follows:
Title: Strategies to enhance vaccine acceptance in future
generations
Panel Category: Vaccine Safety
Panel
Date and Time: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 9:40 AM
Location: Renaissance
Washington DC Downtown Hotel, Washington D.C.
About UNITE
ITI’s investigational UNITE platform, or UNiversal Intracellular
Targeted Expression, is thought to work by encoding the Lysosomal
Associated Membrane Protein, an endogenous protein in humans. In this
way, ITI’s vaccines (DNA or RNA) have the potential to utilize the
body’s natural biochemistry to develop a broad immune response including
antibody production, cytokine release and critical immunological memory.
This approach could put UNITE technology at the crossroads of
immunotherapies in a number of illnesses, including cancer, allergy and
infectious diseases. UNITE is currently being employed in Phase II
clinical trials as a cancer immunotherapy. ITI is also collaborating
with academic centers and biotechnology companies to study the use of
UNITE in cancer types of high mortality, including cases where there are
limited treatment options like glioblastoma and acute myeloid leukemia.
ITI believes that these early clinical studies may provide a proof of
concept for UNITE therapy in cancer, and if successful, set the stage
for future studies, including combinations in these tumor types and
others. Preclinical data is currently being developed to explore whether
LAMP nucleic acid constructs may amplify and activate the immune
response in highly immunogenic tumor types and be used to create immune
responses to tumor types that otherwise do not provoke an immune
response.
About Immunomic Therapeutics, Inc.
Immunomic Therapeutics, Inc. (ITI) is a privately-held, clinical stage
biotechnology company pioneering the development of vaccines through its
proprietary technology platform, UNiversal Intracellular Targeted
Expression (UNITE), which is designed to utilize the body’s natural
biochemistry to develop vaccines that generate broad immune responses.
ITI’s UNITE platform could potentially have broad therapeutic
applications in oncology, including viral antigens, cancer antigens,
neoantigens and antigen-derived antibodies as biologics and ITI has
built a large pipeline from UNITE with six oncology programs and two
allergy programs. ITI has entered into a significant allergy partnership
with Astellas Pharma and has formed several academic collaborations with
leading Immuno-oncology researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
Institute, Johns Hopkins University of Medicine, Duke University. ITI
maintains its headquarters in Rockville, Maryland. For more information,
please visit www.immunomix.com.
Contacts
Company Contact:
Sia Anagnostou
AAnagnostou@immunomix.com
717-327-1822
Media Contact:
Amy Conrad
Juniper Point
amy@juniper-point.com
858-366-3243