Volume 53, Issue 9 pp. 2286-2288
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Programmed Death-1: Therapeutic Success after More than 100 Years of Cancer Immunotherapy

Prof. Alexander Dömling

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Prof. Alexander Dömling

Department for Drug Design, University of Groningen, A. Deusinglaan 1, 9700 AD Groningen (The Netherlands) http://www.drugdesign.nl/

Alexander Dömling, Department for Drug Design, University of Groningen, A. Deusinglaan 1, 9700 AD Groningen (The Netherlands) http://www.drugdesign.nl/

Tad A. Holak, Department of Organic Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Ingardena 3, 30-060 Cracow (Poland)

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Prof. Tad A. Holak

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Prof. Tad A. Holak

Department of Organic Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Ingardena 3, 30-060 Cracow (Poland)

Alexander Dömling, Department for Drug Design, University of Groningen, A. Deusinglaan 1, 9700 AD Groningen (The Netherlands) http://www.drugdesign.nl/

Tad A. Holak, Department of Organic Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Ingardena 3, 30-060 Cracow (Poland)

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First published: 28 January 2014
Citations: 63

A.D. thanks the National Institute of Health (1R01GM09708201), Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) and the Qatar National Research Foundation (NPRP6-065-3-012) for funding. T.A.H. is funded by a Marie Curie FP7-Reintegration-Grant within the 7th EC Framework Programme and by a Project operated within the Foundation for Polish Science TEAM Programme, cofinanced by the EU European Regional Development Fund.

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No other cancer therapy target class caused more excitement than the programmed death-1 (PD-1) pathway related. Antibodies against PD-1 and PD-1 ligands represent a therapeutic breakthrough and are the first examples of broadly efficacious and durable cancer immunotherapies. Cancer for the first time seems to have transformed from an often incurable to a “clinically manageable” disease.

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