Amal Therapeutics publishes R&D findings in Cancer Research

23.07.2015

TOP100 2014, 2012 venture leader USA and Venture Kick alumnus Amal Therapeutics recently announced that part of its recent research findings about a new type of recombinant protein cancer vaccines has been published on-line on the Cancer Research's website.

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Amal uses its proprietary cell penetrating peptide platform to develop and progress therapeutic vaccines in oncology.
The publication underlines the value of a novel immunotherapy class able to simultaneously inducing multi-epitopic immunity, T helper functions and immunologic memory. The article shows that vaccines tested are able to significantly prolonged survival in three robust tumor models. “The results published are demonstrating the proof of concept and showing the strength of Amal’s platform for the development of potent, safe and efficacious cancer vaccines”, said Dr. Derouazi, CEO of Amal Therapeutics. “Having the outcome of our work published in Cancer Research is a great success and a value recognition of the scientific approach taken since Amal’s incorporation in 2012”, added Dr. Derouazi.

Amal Therapeutics is a privately held Swiss/German biotech startup company and spin-off from the University of Geneva, incorporated in September 2012. Amal uses its proprietary cell penetrating peptide platform to develop and progress therapeutic vaccines in oncology.

In 2012, Amal CEO Madiha Derouazi traveled to Boston with the Swiss national startup team. The startup also entered the TOP100 Swiss startups ranking (startup.ch/top100) in 2014. Amal Therapeutics is also a Venture Kick alumni.

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