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Company News: ISA Pharmaceuticals´ Chief Scientific Officer Prof. Cornelis Melief to Present at Keystone Cancer Vaccines Conference

ISA Pharmaceuticals B.V., a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company, today announced that its Chief Scientific Officer Prof. Cornelis Melief will give a talk at the upcoming Keystone Cancer Vaccines Conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada, January 20-24, 2019.

The talk titled “Therapeutic HPV16 Vaccination Is Effective as Monotherapy in Pre-Malignant Disease, but Requires Combination Treatment in HPV16-Induced Cancers” is scheduled for Thursday, January 24, 2019, at 17:00 as part of the session “Immune Monitoring of T Cells” (17:00-18-45, Pacific Ballroom).

The data will outline the T cell response to ISA Pharmaceuticals´ therapeutic vaccine ISA101 and the resulting clinical activity. ISA101 is directed against the HPV16 oncoproteins E6/E7 and is the Company´s clinical-stage lead compound. It is being developed to treat HPV16-induced cancers such as cervical cancer and head-and-neck cancer.