OncoSec Medical to Host Satellite Symposium at the 8th World Congress of Melanoma in Hamburg, Germany on July 17
OncoSec Medical Inc. (OTCQB: ONCS), a company developing its
advanced-stage ImmunoPulse DNA-based immunotherapy and NeoPulse therapy
to treat solid tumors, will host a satellite symposium at the 8th
World Congress of Melanoma in Hamburg, Germany on Wednesday, July 17 at
4:00 – 5:00PM CEST.
The symposium, titled “Advances in Gene Electrotransfer: An Emerging
Intralesional Therapy for Metastatic Melanoma,” will be chaired by Axel
Hauschild, M.D., Ph.D., professor and head of the Interdisciplinary Skin
Cancer Center at the Department of Dermatology, University Hospital
Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel, Germany, and a member of OncoSec’s Melanoma
Advisory Board.
The symposium agenda is as follows:
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Current perspectives on intralesional therapies – Dr. Sanjiv Agarwala,
M.D.
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Clinical Update – Phase II study of pIL-12 with electroporation in
stage III-IV metastatic melanoma – Dr. Adil Daud, M.D.
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Gene electrotransfer with pIL-12: Why it is effective and potential
combinations with Anti-CTLA4 and Anti-PD1 in a B16.F10 mouse melanoma
model – Dr. Richard Heller, Ph.D.
About the World Congress of Melanoma/European Association of
Dermato-Oncology (EADO) Congress
The World Congress of Melanoma attracts the international melanoma
community of basic researchers and clinicians. The 8th World Congress of
Melanoma will be organized in conjunction with the 9th Congress of the
European Association of Dermato-Oncology (EADO), the World Meeting of
Melanoma Centers, and the Post-Chicago Melanoma Meeting 2013. The EADO
Congress includes non-melanoma skin cancer and cutaneous lymphomas as
topics. This congress will cover the entire field of melanoma and other
cutaneous malignancies. Epidemiology, prevention and early detection of
skin cancer are important fields in order to reverse the current trend
of increasing incidences. New diagnostic devices and optical approaches
have improved the diagnostic sensitivity and specificity and are
discussed extensively. Patient management issues including psychosocial
aspects and the follow-up for high risk patients are aspects of the
program, too. Furthermore, basic science results for melanoma and other
skin cancers will be presented in plenary lectures and during symposia.
Other cutaneous malignancies are the main topic during the EADO
sessions. For more information, please visit www.worldmelanoma2013.com.
About OncoSec Medical Inc.
OncoSec Medical Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company developing its
advanced-stage ImmunoPulse DNA-based immunotherapy and NeoPulse therapy
to treat solid tumor cancers. ImmunoPulse and NeoPulse therapies address
an unmet medical need and represent a potential solution, for less
invasive and less expensive therapies that are able to minimize
detrimental effects resulting from currently available cancer treatments
such as surgery, systemic chemotherapy or immunotherapy and other
treatment alternatives. OncoSec Medical's core technology is based upon
its proprietary use of an electroporation platform to dramatically
enhance the delivery and uptake of a locally delivered DNA-based
immunocytokine (ImmunoPulse) or chemotherapeutic agent (NeoPulse).
Treatment of various solid cancers using these powerful and targeted
anti-cancer agents has demonstrated selective destruction of cancerous
cells while sparing healthy normal tissues during early and late stage
clinical trials. OncoSec's clinical programs include three Phase II
clinical trials for ImmunoPulse targeting lethal skin cancers. More
information is available at http://www.oncosec.com/.
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