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STAT+: Dreams of cancer vaccines are becoming more real. Here are 9 scientists making it happen 

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Vaccines are the original immunotherapy, in the view of Ryan Sullivan, a cancer immunotherapy researcher and oncologist at Mass General Cancer Center. But many other modes of immunotherapy for cancer were approved first — checkpoint blockade drugs like Keytruda and engineered immune cell therapies like Yescarta.

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STAT+: Cancer vaccines gain momentum, after years of disappointing results

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SAN DIEGO — Cancer vaccines have traveled a potholed road over the last decade. The promise has long been an affordable, personalized cancer vaccine that could train the immune system to recognize proteins from cancer cells and, subsequently, destroy the tumor.

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STAT+: New antiviral works against coronaviruses in mice, but human testing will have to wait

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During the Covid-19 pandemic, vaccines were the main line of defense. Startlingly effective shots quickly helped immunize a large portion of the population — at least initially, and in high-income countries. Antiviral treatments were not as impactful. Molnupiravir is taken orally, but is less effective than the other options.

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Triple Negative Breast Cancer Drug Development Digital Summit

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Given the large unmet clinical need in this oncology indication and aligned with recent clinical trial progress, the Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) Drug Development Digital Summi t has been created to provide insight into industry- and academic-led clinical programs developing immune checkpoint, DDR inhibitor, ADC and other novel agents.

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STAT+: Foundation charges cancer patients $83,000 for unproven but promising experimental drug

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Still, when doctors told her last year that the cancer was growing despite two operations, radiation therapy, and a fifth regimen of chemotherapy, the retired business-meeting facilitator decided to do something unorthodox: spend $83,000 out of pocket on an unproven experimental cancer vaccine.

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Accelerating AMR vaccine development

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In July 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) released its inaugural report on the pipeline of vaccines currently in development to prevent infections caused by antimicrobial resistance (AMR) bacterial pathogens. WHO referred to 61 bacterial vaccine candidates in diverse stages of clinical development.

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Digital innovation drives vaccine development

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It is becoming increasingly important for people all over the world to understand the importance of vaccines and to have access to the vaccines they need – especially with digital innovation driving new vaccine development. Innovative new vaccines are being created more rapidly than ever before.