CytoCure

Novel Cancer Therapeutics--Overcoming Antigen Silencing

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CytoCure LLC

Company Background

 

CytoCure LLC was founded in 1999 in order to capitalize on the discovery that tumors can escape immune destruction by down-regulating expression of targeted antigens. Importantly, this antigen loss, dubbed "antigen- silencing," is the result of gene regulatory events that are reversible.

CytoCure's research and development programs have identified numerous compounds which affect known cellular processes that can be used to up-regulate antigen expression.

CytoCure has submitted a patent application that claims the use of Interferon-beta to up-regulate antigen expression in combination with immunotherapy. A Clinical Immunotherapy Trial will test this combination of Interferon-beta (Dunn et al. 2007)  and immunotherapy in the treatment of malignant melanoma.