Greenwich Lifesciences Inc. followed a February update with another on the phase III Flamingo-01 trial, providing open-label immune response data for GLSI-100, a HER2/neu peptide vaccine immunotherapy to prevent breast cancer recurrences in patients who have completed standard therapy. Specifically, GLSI-100 combines GP2, the HER2/neu-derived peptide, with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor.

“The nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated.” That statement in an open letter “to the American people” signed by 1,800 members of the U.S. National Academies, is made concrete in a list of 709 NIH grants – and counting – that have been axed since President Donald Trump was inaugurated on Jan. 20. A grant tracker, based on information published by the Department of Health and Human Sciences, and self-reported terminations from scientists, includes 88 vaccine-related projects, 45 cancer research grants and 231 awards made for HIV research.

In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers from Nanjing University present a novel nanovaccine cocktail formulated by individual conjugation of antigen p210 and adjuvant CpG ODNs onto superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs).