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Immunotherapy is a rapidly emerging field providing new therapies for cancer and other at present incurable diseases. A major attraction of this approach is that it offers the prospect of precisely aimed therapies with greatly reduced risk of side effects and minimal discomfort for the patient.

Immunotherapy is based on harnessing the immune system to eliminate or stop the growth of undesired cells (cancer) or to control diseases caused by normal biochemical processes that have gone out of control (Alzheimer, high blood pressure, Crohn’s disease, rheumatism, osteoporosis, etc). It is foreseen that many cancers will eventually be cured or reduced to manageable chronic conditions. In addition it is expected that immunotherapy offers the prospect of the development of effective treatment for chronic diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease.

Until now, antibody based products have formed the mainstay of commercial immunotherapies.