This is the transcript from Q-3 regarding Fimavacc, strong wording on the potential and applications, tried to highlight some words:
PW:
"So let’s go over to fimaVACC. This is, as I said, a vaccination technology. And the primary aim of this vaccination technology is to enhance the cellular immune response of vaccines. We just mix fimaporfin, our agent, with the vaccine injected into the skin, wait a few hours and illuminate the skin afterwards. And by doing this, we can affect or modify the intracellular trafficking in immune cells of the antigen of the vaccine and thereby make it express a higher level of cellular responses.
And what we have proven mechanistically is that we can release antigens from endosomes, which shall then transported into – cut off by proteasomes and then transported up with MHC I – MHC class I presentations generate more specific set of toxic T cells, which can attack cancer and virus-infected cells more efficiently thereby being better as therapeutic vaccines. So strong potential in this technology.
It has a unique mode of action, can be combined with a number of different adjuvants. It has a broad applicability across both protein and peptide antigens, can be used for both prophylactic and therapeutic vaccinations. There are a number of prophylactic uses that also need stronger cellular immune responses. Excellent stability and the user-friendliness in that there are a few logistical changes – challenges. The product is stable at room temperature and can be autoclaved and stable for a number of years. And we have some very important recent IP generation around this, so very good protection on this vaccination technology.
We have some very strong preclinical results that we have shown before and moved on the basis on that into a clinical translation with the objective to determine safety, tolerability and immune response of fimaVACC with 2 different – one peptide and one protein, the HPV E7 peptide and KLH protein.
Three parts of this study, tolerability, fimaVACC vaccination and then an optional part with optimization of the fimaVACC regimen if that is needed.
We have included more than 90 subjects in this. We’ve completed part 1 and part 2 and we have released the early spot results showing that we see a higher number of T cells, higher response rates and also that they appear quicker. This is up to 3 vaccinations and you can monitor how quickly the immune response comes.
Now our near-term focus is on characterization of the immune response further to see exactly what this immune response looks like. And for that, we have now established a collaboration with the Department of Medical Oncology at Leiden University Medical Center, together with Professor Sjoerd van der Burg, which is one of the leading persons in the world for this kind of immune analysis. And we will report the results of this as soon as the results are available. And we have said that this study will be completed by second half 2018**. So in the near future, we expect to have something to tell you about the results of this study**."
Link to Q-3 presentation Transcript
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/edited-transcript-pcib-ol-earnings-191911416.html