ImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd Licenses Novel Immunotherapeutic Target EphA2 from University of Pittsburgh

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ImmunoCellular Therapeutics (OTCBB: IMUC) today announced that it has entered into an agreement with University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) under which Pitt has licensed to the Company intellectual property surrounding EphA2, a tyrosine kinase receptor that is highly expressed by ovarian cancer and other advanced and metastatic malignancies. This agreement grants a world-wide exclusive license to the Pitt intellectual property for ovarian and pancreatic cancers; and a world-wide non-exclusive license to the Pitt intellectual property for brain cancer. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.