Scancell Holdings Plc (LON:SCLP) has signed an agreement with The PolyPeptide Group for the manufacture of its first Moditope anti-cancer platform, Modi-1-AMPLIVANT.
The AIM-listed firm said that the contract with the independent contract manufacturer of therapeutic peptides was signed at the end of March 2018.
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The cancer specialist said its Moditope platform acts by stimulating the production of CD4+ T cells, which seek out and kill tumour cells that would otherwise be hidden from the immune system.
Scancell said it plans to commence a phase I/II clinical trial of Modi-1-AMPLIVANT in the first half of 2019 in patients with triple-negative breast cancer, ovarian cancer and sarcomas.
Cliff Holloway, CEO of Scancell, said: “Commencing GMP manufacture is an important step in the development of our first Moditope product and is key to moving this novel therapy into the clinic in the first half of 2019.”