Inovio Pharmaceuticals Enters Into Strategic Cancer Vaccine Collaboration and License Agreement With MedImmune

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AstraZeneca's (AZN) MedImmune to Acquire Inovio Pharma's (INO) NO-3112 Immunotherapy Rights

August 10, 2015 6:08 AM EDT

Inovio Pharma (NASDAQ: INO) announced that it has entered into a license agreement and collaboration with MedImmune, the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN).

Under the agreement, MedImmune will acquire exclusive rights to Inovio's INO-3112 immunotherapy, which targets cancers caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18. INO-3112, which is in phase I/II clinical trials for cervical and head and neck cancers, works by generating killer T-cell responses that are able to destroy HPV 16- and 18-driven tumors. These HPV types are responsible for... More