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PDS collaborates with Merck

One of NetScientific’s portfolio companies, PDS Biotechnology (17.4% stake, 14.5% fully diluted), announced on 10 July 2017 that it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Merck to investigate the combination of the cancer vaccine PDS0101 with the PD-1 inhibitor Keytruda. PDS will be initiating a Phase IIb clinical study of the combination for the treatment of human papilloma virus-16 mediated forms of recurrent and metastatic head and neck cancer.
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NetScientific

NetScientific is a healthcare IP commercialization group focused on sourcing, funding and commercializing technologies and companies that have the potential to treat chronic disease. As of Dec 31 2016, Co. had four core portfolio companies: Vortex Biosciences, Inc., which is developing a liquid biopsy technology that aims to improve cancer diagnosis, monitoring and treatment; Wanda, Inc., which has developed an artificial intelligence platform for remote patient monitoring; ProAxsis Ltd, which is developing a range of products for the capture, detection and measurement of active protease biomarkers of disease; and Glycotest, Inc., which is a liver diagnostics company.

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Maxim Jacobs

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