BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aduro BioTech, a clinical-stage immunotherapy company, has licensed GVAX Pancreas Cancer Vaccine (GVAX Pancreas) and GVAX Prostate Cancer Vaccine (GVAX Prostate) from BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: BPAX) in exchange for milestone and royalty payments after commercialization. Aduro also has an option to additional GVAX cancer vaccine indications, all for use in combination with the company’s proprietary vaccine platform based on Listeria monocytogenes (Lm). Aduro initially plans to develop a novel sequential vaccine regimen for the treatment of pancreatic cancer using GVAX Pancreas and CRS-207.
