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Table 10.4 Clinical trials of personalized cancer vaccines
Vaccine 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 carcinoma
Phase II
BiovaxID ® Biovest
International
Inc
Patient-specifi c active
immunotherapy/mantle cell
lymphoma and follicular
non- Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Phase II/III
Compassionate
use in Europe
CVac™:
dendritic cell
(DC)/
auto-logous
vaccine
PrimaBiomed DCs + mannan fusion protein
(adjuvant mannan, attached to a
tumor cell surface protein, mucin
1)/ovarian cancer
Phase IIb
DC/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 II
HER2/neu
hybrid
vaccine
Antigen Express Peptide immunotherapeutic/HER2/
neu positive breast cancer
Phase II
Imetelstat
(GRNVAC1)
Geron Corporation Autologous DCs loaded ex vivo with
telomerase reverse transcriptase/
metastatic prostate cancer
Phase II
MGN1601 Mologen Gene-modifi ed tumor cells based on
MIDGE (Minimalistic
Immunogenically Defi ned Gene
Expression) vectors/kidney cancer
Phase I
MyVax ® Genitope
Corporation
Designed to activate a patient’s
immune system to identify and
attack cancer cells/follicular
non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Phase III
Oncophage
(now called
Prophage,
except in
Russia)
Agenus Inc Renal cancer and malignant
melanoma
Phase III in US
Marketed in
Russia
OncoVAX Vaccinogen Inc Vaccine from the patient’s own tumor
cells, which are irradiated to make
them non-carcinogenic/colorectal
cancer
Phase III
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