- Ziopharm (ZIOP) has presented clinical and pre-clinical data for its Ad-RTS-IL-12 gene therapy candidate at a a cancer immunotherapy conference taking place in NYC from Sep. 16-19.
- One presentation, titled "Demonstration of Systemic Antitumor Immunity via Intratumoral Regulated Expression of IL-12 in Advanced Breast Cancer and Melanoma Patients," is said to highlight "additional evidence of systemic immune activation with AD-RTS-hIL-12 and veledimex in advanced melanoma and breast cancer patients."
- Another presentation, titled "Demonstration of Systemic Antitumor Immunity via Intratumoral Regulated Expression of IL-12 as a Gene Therapy Approach to Treatment of Cancer," is said to demonstrate "the anti-tumor effects and tolerability of Ad-RTS-mIL-12 in murine models of glioblastoma (brain cancer), colon cancer and melanoma."
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