Biovex Limited

Intellect Neurosciences Inc.

Benjamin Chain

Robert Stuart Coffin

The invention provides a chimeric peptide or mixture of chimeric peptides that can be formulated as an immunizing composition and used in a method for immunization of a mammal against an internal peptide cleavage product derived from a precursor or mature protein, for which the peptide cleavage product and the precursor or mature protein are self molecules. The chimeric peptide or peptides have an end-specific B cell epitope from a naturally-occurring internal peptide cleavage product of a precursor or mature protein, as a free N- or C-terminus, fused with or without spacer residues to a T helper cell epitope derived from a living source different from that of the internal peptide cleavage product.

Chimeric peptides as immunogens, antibodies thereto, and methods for immunization using chimeric peptides or antibodies

An attenuated herpes virus capable of efficiently infecting a dendritic cell without preventing antigen processing occurring within the infected cell. The attenuated herpes virus and dentrictic cells infected with the virus are useful in immunotherapeutic methods of treating disease.

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Benjamin Chain