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Immunotherapy for STI treatment: Agenus CEO on its genital herpes vaccine

Many companies are contending to hit the market first in the race for a genital herpes vaccine(Opens in a new window). The thread that ties them together? Immunotherapy – the wunderdrug for cancer therapy that’s now showing promise(Opens in a new window) for infectious disease.But it hasn’t always been so, said Agenus CEO Garo Armen, whose immunotherapy approach […]

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Race tight for genital herpes vaccine

After decades of stagnancy in the herpes therapeutics space, a real neck-and-neck race is emerging among three biotechs in the immunotherapy space: Genocea(Opens in a new window) and Agenus(Opens in a new window), both based in Massachusetts, San Diego’s Vical(Opens in a new window) are speeding ahead in developing a herpes vaccine.The idea for these companies is […]