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Anixa Biosciences Announces Presentation on Breast Cancer Vaccine Trial at the 2022 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Anixa Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANIX), a biotechnology company focused on the treatment and prevention of
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[{"type":"text","content":"SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Anixa Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANIX), a biotechnology company focused on the treatment and prevention of cancer and infectious diseases, today announced a presentation outlining the design of its ongoing breast cancer vaccine trial on December 7, 2022, at the 2022 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nThis Symposium takes place December 6-10, 2022 in San Antonio, TX, and is designed to provide state-of-the-art information on the experimental biology, etiology, prevention, diagnosis, and therapy of breast cancer and premalignant breast disease, to an international audience of academic and private physicians and researchers. The scientific program consists of formal lectures by experts in clinical and basic research, selected slide and poster presentations, forums, and case discussions.\nPresentation details can be found below:\nPoster ID: OT2-10-02Poster Title: Phase I trial of an alpha-lactalbumin vaccine in patients with operable triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC)Date/Time: December 7, 2022, 5:00 PM CST\nAbout Anixa Bioscience's Breast Cancer VaccineAnixa's breast cancer vaccine, currently in Phase 1 trials, takes advantage of endogenously produced proteins that have a function at certain times in life, but then become \"retired\" and disappear from the body. One such protein is a breast-specific lactation protein, α-lactalbumin, which is no longer found post-lactation in normal, aging tissues, but is present in the majority of triple-negative breast cancers. Activating the immune system against this \"retired\" protein provides preemptive immune protection against emerging breast tumors that express α-lactalbumin. The vaccine also contains an adjuvant that activates an innate immune response, which allows the immune system to mount a response against emerging tumors to prevent them from growing. This vaccine technology was invented by Dr. Vincent Tuohy, Mort and Iris November Distinguished Chair in Innovative Breast Cancer Research in the Department of Inflammation and Immunity at Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute. Dr. Tuohy is named as inventor on the technology, which Cleveland Clinic exclusively licensed to Anixa Biosciences. Dr. Tuohy will receive a portion of commercialization revenues received by Cleveland Clinic for this technology a...