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ImmunoCellular Therapeutics Announces Issuance of Key Patent Covering ICT-107 Cancer Vaccine Target

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd. (“ImmunoCellular”) (NYSE MKT: IMUC) announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a patent covering methods of use of interleukin 13-receptor alpha 2 protein (IL-13Rα2) in cancer immunotherapy. IL-13 is an immune regulatory cytokine and IL-13Rα2 is highly and specifically expressed in glioblastoma, ovarian and other solid tumors, but not in normal tissue. IL-13Rα2 is an important target of ImmunoCellular’s lead product candidate, ICT-107, a dendritic cell vaccine directed against glioblastoma antigens and cancer stem cells, as well as ICT-140, a dendritic cell vaccine to treat ovarian cancer.