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Posted: **Thu Mar 06, 2014 9:32 am**

Its no secret, Scancell's directors plan to sell the British company sometime over the next few years. The Americans are probably the most interested of all in seeing the company cross the Atlantic as Scancell has been given the worldwide rights to use the US Department of Health's melanoma antigens in its lead vaccine, SCIB1. The US government can only get a return on these antigen discoveries when Scancell's vaccine enters the market-place. Scancell has agreed to pay royalties, which the Americans are keen to receive having spent years and millions of dollars developing the antigens at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.

Here's an intriguing comment by one poster on London South East's Scancell Chat:

Politics! Politics!
The US government owns the melanoma antigens in Scancell's lead vaccine. To get a return on the millions of dollars they have spent developing them, they will be putting enormous pressure on American drug suppliers to government health programs to buy up Scancell quickly. Scancell has been smart: having got the worldwide rights to exploit the antigens commercially they rushed to get a composition of matter patent for the vaccine and a US patent over its DNA delivery. This has prevented any other company from using the antigens unless they buy Scancell first. I expect a major US company will end up owning Scancell now. There is no way the Americans will relinquish final ownership of their discoveries.

As a footnote to the above: on 11th February 2014 the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted the coveted Orphan Drug Designation to Scancell's SCIB1 ImmunoBody® vaccine for the treatment of metastatic melanoma.

Here's some research and fact checking links:

13th May 2010
Licensing agreement with the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
http://www.scancell.co.uk/Apps/Content/News/?id=186

20th October 2011
Composition of matter patent granted for SCIB1.
http://www.scancell.co.uk/Apps/Content/News/?id=222

9th March 2012
ImmunoBody® vaccine patent approved in the United States.
http://www.scancell.co.uk/Apps/Content/News/?id=244

11th February 2014
SCIB1 Granted FDA Orphan Drug Status
http://www.scancell.co.uk/Apps/Content/News/?id=313

Posted: **Fri Apr 04, 2014 2:52 pm**

Interesting news today. Scancell is to present interim data at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting on their SCIB1 vaccine's ongoing clinical trial.

AACR is the premier cancer research event with about 18,000 researchers, patient advocates, and other professionals in the cancer field from around the world scheduled to be in attendance. It provides a unique opportunity for members of the worldwide cancer research community to learn about cutting-edge advances, obtain feedback on their own research, and make connections that will foster future collaborations.

Here's an interesting comment from Shri9:
"If you follow the industry news on a regular basis you can't fail to read how Scancell''s American competitors enthuse on their websites and in the press that they are to present their trial results at the AACR Annual Meeting. This appears to be a must that so many European and overseas companies get excluded from. Scancell's invitation to present their SCIB1 vaccine's trial results at the AACR ensures a level playing field with regard to the company's promotion in the world's most important oncology market. It is also an important reminder that one of Scancell's most important collaborators on their SCIB1 vaccine is the United States government whose Institutes of Health is to receive royalty payments when the vaccine enters production. Earlier this year the U S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted orphan drug designation to SCIB1 qualifying the vaccine for a 50% tax credit for clinical trials, a waiver of the prescription drug user fee for the drug approval procedure and at least seven-year market exclusivity following drug approval by the FDA."

http://www.scancell.co.uk/Apps/Content/News/?id=318

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