Combination of alphavirus replicon particle-based vaccination with immunomodulatory antibodies: therapeutic activity in the B16 melanoma mouse model and immune correlates.

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Published in Cancer Immunol Res on February 26, 2014

Authors

Francesca Avogadri1, Roberta Zappasodi, Arvin Yang, Sadna Budhu, Nicole Malandro, Daniel Hirschhorn-Cymerman, Shakuntala Tiwari, Maureen F Maughan, Robert Olmsted, Jedd D Wolchok, Taha Merghoub

Author Affiliations

1: Authors' Affiliations: AlphaVax, Inc., Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

Associated clinical trials:

Study of Dabrafenib +/- Trametinib in Combination With Ipilimumab for V600E/K Mutation Positive Metastatic or Unresectable Melanoma | NCT01767454

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