CEL-SCI Secures Manufacturing Facility for Multikine C...(method fortreating cancer in the future....),Health

Date:8/19/2007

method for treating cancer in the future. At the same time we also recognize the challenges faced by any Phase III biotech company wishing to self-fund a manufacturing facility. With CEL-SCI's help we were able to devise a client- tailored financing approach for their facility, which allows CEL-SCI to preserve its capital and focus on its core business. CEL-SCI has a dedicated and highly capable management team that we believe will succeed in bringing to market a major new cancer drug. We are simply pleased to be helping CEL-SCI accomplish that goal."

In Phase II clinical trials Multikine was shown to be safe and well- tolerated, and to improve the patients' overall survival by 33% at a median of three and a half years following surgery. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave the go-ahead for a Phase III clinical trial with Multikine in January 2007 and granted Orphan drug status to Multikine in the neoadjuvant therapy of squamous cell carcinoma (cancer) of the head and neck in May 2007.

Multikine, a patented defined mixture of naturally derived cytokines, is the first immunotherapeutic agent in a new class of drugs called "Immune SIMULATORS". Immune SIMULATORS simulate the way our natural immune system acts in defending us against cancer. As opposed to other immunotherapies, which are designed to target a single or limited number of specific antigens or molecules, Immune SIMULATORS are multi-targeted; they simultaneously cause a direct and targeted killing of the specific tumor cells and they activate the immune system to produce a stronger anti-tumor attack on multiple fronts.

Multikine is also the first immunotherapeutic agent being developed as a first-line standard of care treatment for cancer. It is administered prior to any other cancer therapy because that is the period when the anti-tumor immune response can still be fully activated. Once the patient has advanced disease, or had surgery or has received radiation and/or chemother
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