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Developments in the diabetes vaccine market
- Imcys— a Belgium-based biotech company— announced plans to commence its clinical trial in 2018 for new diabetes vaccine to treat type 1 diabetes. It uses modified peptides called imotopes, which spurs specific type of immune cell to kill immune cells that work on the insulin producing beta cells.
- Moreover, in 2017, Massachusetts General Hospital Immunobiology Laboratory presented findings of clinical trial at 75th Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association, related to use of BCG vaccine to treat autoimmune response in type 1 diabetes. BCG vaccine could induce a permanent gene expression that restores regulatory T cells, thereby preventing the immune system attack, which is observed in type 1 diabetes. It is currently under phase two clinical trial.