Anixa Biosciences To Host Conference Call This Evening To Discuss New Data From Ongoing Phase 1 Study Of Breast Cancer Vaccine
Author: Benzinga Newsdesk | December 06, 2023 05:19pm
– Data to be released at approximately 6:00 p.m. ET, following presentation at 2023 SABCS –
– Conference call to commence at 6:30 p.m. ET –
SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Anixa Biosciences, Inc. ("Anixa" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:ANIX), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the treatment and prevention of cancer, will publicly release new data this evening from the ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial of its breast cancer vaccine, which was presented for the first time today at the 2023 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium ("SABCS"). All interested parties are invited to join an upcoming conference call today at 6:30 pm ET to discuss the data.
Anixa is pleased to invite all interested parties to participate in a conference call today at 6:30 p.m. ET, during which the new data will be discussed.
Conference Call Details:
Presentation host:
Anixa management, with special guest speakers (bios below)
Jennifer Davis: Ms. Davis is a nurse, wife, mother of three, and Triple Negative Breast Cancer survivor. She was diagnosed in 2018 and had chemotherapy, radiation, a double mastectomy, and was the first person in the world to receive Anixa's breast cancer vaccine in 2021 through Cleveland Clinic. Ms. Davis is passionate about preventing breast cancer for herself and all women.
H. Michael Shepard, PH.D.: Dr. Shepard is a Key Opinion Leader in oncology. He has made seminal contributions to the fields of immunotherapy, gene therapy of cancer, and precision medicine. Dr. Shepard is best known as the inventor of the life-saving breast cancer drug Herceptin® (trastuzumab). Herceptin was the first monoclonal antibody therapy approved for cancer, and it spawned an explosion in monoclonal therapies and antibody-drug conjugates for cancer. Herceptin still generates sales of over $5 billion per year and is one of the best-selling cancer drugs of all time, having been prescribed for over 2.3 million breast cancer sufferers. Among his many awards and honors are the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize from Harvard Medical School and the Lasker-Debakey Award. The Alpert Award was shared with Dennis Slamon, Axel Ullrich, and Robert Weinberg and the Lasker-DeBakey Award was shared with Slamon and Ullrich for their development of Herceptin. Dr. Shepard is an advisor to Anixa.
Brian Leyland-Jones, MBBS, MD, PH.D., FACP, FRCPC: Dr. Leyland-Jones is also a Key Opinion Leader in oncology. He is a past Chief of Developmental Therapeutics at the National Cancer Institute ("NCI") and has served as principal, co-principal, and co-investigator on more than 100 clinical studies. While at the NCI, he coordinated the international development of Paclitaxel, a cancer drug, and while at McGill University, made numerous contributions to the development of Herceptin. Dr. Leyland-Jones has served as the director of two major cancer centers, holding positions as the Founding Chair of Oncology and Director of the McGill University Comprehensive Cancer Center (Minda de Gunzberg Chair), and Director of the Winship Cancer Centre and Associate Vice President of Health Science at Emory University (first director to achieve NCI designation in 30 years). Dr. Leyland-Jones is an advisor to Anixa.
About Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
One in eight women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with an invasive breast cancer at some point in their lives. Approximately 10-15% of those diagnoses are TNBC, however TNBC accounts for a disproportionately higher percentage of breast cancer deaths and has a higher rate of recurrence. This form of breast cancer is twice as likely to occur in African-American women, and approximately 70% to 80% of the breast tumors that occur in women with mutations in the BRCA1 genes are triple-negative breast cancer.
