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Table 10.4 Clinical trials of personalized cancer vaccinesVaccine Sponsor Description/indication Phase/status
AGS-003
autologous
DC vaccine
Argos Therapeutics Arcelis™ Personalized
Immunotherapy: DCs pulsed with
amplifi ed mRNA from the
patient’s tumor/metastatic renal
cell carcinomaPhase IIBiovaxID ® Biovest
International
Inc
Patient-specifi c active
immunotherapy/mantle cell
lymphoma and follicular
non- Hodgkin’s lymphomaPhase II/III
Compassionate
use in EuropeCVac™:
dendritic cell
(DC)/
auto-logous
vaccine
PrimaBiomed DCs + mannan fusion protein
(adjuvant mannan, attached to a
tumor cell surface protein, mucin
1)/ovarian cancerPhase IIbDC/autologous
vaccines
Northwest
Biotherapeutics- DCVax ® -Prostate/cancer of
prostate- Phase III/US
- DCVax ® -Brain/glioblastoma
multiforme
2. Phase II/US
FANG™
Vaccine
Gradalis Inc Autologous tumor cell vaccine
expresses rhGM-CSF and the
bifunctional RNAi effector,
bi-shRNAfurin/Phase IIHER2/neu
hybrid
vaccine
Antigen Express Peptide immunotherapeutic/HER2/
neu positive breast cancerPhase IIImetelstat
(GRNVAC1)
Geron Corporation Autologous DCs loaded ex vivo with
telomerase reverse transcriptase/
metastatic prostate cancerPhase IIMGN1601 Mologen Gene-modifi ed tumor cells based on
MIDGE (Minimalistic
Immunogenically Defi ned Gene
Expression) vectors/kidney cancer
Phase IMyVax ® Genitope
Corporation
Designed to activate a patient’s
immune system to identify and
attack cancer cells/follicular
non-Hodgkin’s lymphomaPhase IIIOncophage
(now called
Prophage,
except in
Russia)
Agenus Inc Renal cancer and malignant
melanomaPhase III in US
Marketed in
RussiaOncoVAX Vaccinogen Inc Vaccine from the patient’s own tumor
cells, which are irradiated to make
them non-carcinogenic/colorectal
cancer
Phase III(continued)10 Personalized Therapy of Cancer