Prima BioMed joins with Japanese firm

Company News

by Lee Brooks


Prima BioMed Limited (ASX:PRR; NASDAQ:PBMD) says it has joined forces with a Japanese spin-off from NEC Corp called CYTLIMIC.

Under the terms of the deal Prima will provide its lead product, an immune control mechanism called IMP321 to CYTLIMIC who will fund a new pre-clinical and development study for the drug.

It is hoped the collaboration will produce a peptide vaccine for cancer immunotherapy.

Prima Biomed made a net loss of $62 million to the end of June 2016.
 

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