SAN DIEGO, Sept. 26, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- MabVax Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MBVX), a clinical-stage oncology drug development company, announces that its lead antibody development program, HuMab 5B1, was featured in three separate presentations at the recently held World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC) in September. The presentations were made by investigators from the Department of Radiology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) describing the novel use of MabVax's lead antibody as a PET imaging agent and as a radioimmunotherapy agent targeting pancreatic and bladder cancer.
Summaries of the investigator presentations and key points made are as follows:
David Hansen, CEO of MabVax Therapeutics, said, "We are grateful to Jason S. Lewis, Ph.D. and his team for their continued pioneering work using the HuMab-5B1 platform. They are taking important steps in expanding the clinical utility of our HuMab-5B1 antibody, including (1) demonstrating that smaller fragments of our full-length antibody could provide significant advantages in speeding tumor imaging, (2) demonstrating the utility of our full length antibody with a new radioimmunotherapy approach, (3) helping MabVax to evaluate additional CA19-9 expressing cancers for which our antibody development program may have utility beyond our current focus on pancreatic cancer, and (4) completing investigations supporting our radioimmunotherapy product for which we plan to submit an Investigational New Drug Application later this year."
About MabVax
MabVax Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development of antibody-based products to address unmet medical needs in the treatment of cancer. MabVax has discovered a pipeline of human monoclonal antibody products based on the protective immune responses generated by patients who have been vaccinated against targeted cancers with the Company's proprietary vaccines. MabVax's HuMab-5B1 antibody is fully human and was discovered from the immune response of cancer patients vaccinated with an antigen-specific vaccine during a phase I trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, or MSK. In preclinical research, the 5B1 antibody has demonstrated high specificity and affinity, and has shown potent cancer cell killing capacity and efficacy in animal models of pancreatic, colon and small cell lung cancers. The antigen the antibody targets is expressed on more than 90% of pancreatic cancers making the antibody potentially broadly applicable to most patients suffering from this type of cancer. MabVax's two lead antibody clinical programs, currently in phase I clinical trials, utilize HuMab-5B1 as a therapeutic antibody (MVT-5873) and as an immuno-PET imaging agent (MVT-2163). Additional information is available at www.mabvax.com.
Forward Looking Statements
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