Defence Therapeutics CEO Sébastien Plouffe on the next steps in the battle against cancer

What is the advantage of the latest discovery from Defence Therapeutics and when do patients benefit from the progress in the battle against cancer?

‘The battle against cancer includes multiple but specific strategies directly targeting the tumor itself (e.g., CAR-T or immune-checkpoint blockers). However, tumor regression alone is not enough as the tumor being targeted can re-grow and leads to the formation of metastases all over the body. To limit this outcome, one needs to develop a therapeutic cancer vaccine capable not only of destroying tumor cells, but also eliciting the formation of long-term memory response capable of providing potent protection from subsequent tumor relapses.

So far, dendritic cell-based vaccines were ineffective at achieving this goal, which is why Defence Therapeutics chose to adopt a different and unconventional approach by reprogramming mesenchymal stromal cells using its Accum technology to obtain powerful antigen presenting cells.

With such an experimental therapeutic vaccine in hand, Defence is currently preparing an IND submission to initiate a Phase I trial in patients with solid tumors.’

Sébastien Plouffe, CEO, Defence Therapeutics Inc.

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