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BriaCell at PBC: Pioneering cancer research finds a home in Pasadena

By Christopher Holly — May 4, 2015
For over 45 years Dr. Charles Wiseman has pushed the envelope defining cancer treatment. In the 1970s he helped pioneer chemotherapy treatments for breast cancer now considered the standard of care. Today Dr. Wiseman is President of BriaCell Therapeutics, a breast cancer immunotherapy company that has developed “BriaVax”, a patented whole-cell vaccine demonstrating highly encouraging Phase-I safety and efficacy data. For more about BriaCell and BriaVax check out the recent OZY feature HERE In early 2015 BriaCell joined the Pasadena Bioscience Collaborative (PBC), the region’­­­­s only fully operational non-profit incubator, further cementing Pasadena’s growing reputation as a cutting edge hub of bio-medical R&D. For more on all PBC click HERE
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