LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd. (OTCBB: IMUC), a biotechnology company that is developing immune based therapies for the treatment of various forms of cancer, announced today that the Company has entered into a sponsored research agreement and an option agreement with The University of Pennsylvania (“UPENN”) to support process development and manufacturing in a planned Phase II clinical trial of ICT-107, the Company’s dendritic-cell based cancer vaccine product candidate for the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). GBM is the most common and aggressive form of brain cancer. In a Phase I clinical trial, ICT-107 demonstrated the ability to significantly extend in patients their overall survival time as well as tumor free survival time compared to the current standard of care.
