Benzinga | Jul 13, 2020 09:02AM EDT

OncoSec's Highlights Episode Of NBC TV Portland's 'Straight Talk' Discussing Coronavirus Vaccine Candidate

PENNINGTON, N.J. and SAN DIEGO, July 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- OncoSec Medical Incorporated (NASDAQ:ONCS) (the "Company" or "OncoSec"), a company developing late-stage intratumoral DNA--based cancer immunotherapies, today announced the promising potential of its novel DNA--encodable vaccine candidate, CORVax12, which is designed to act as a prophylactic vaccine to prevent COVID-19, was featured in the show 'Straight Talk' by KGW NewsChannel 8, an NBC TV affiliate in Portland, Oregon.

You can watch the full episode and read the article here: https://www.kgw.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/straight-talk/providence-researchers-developing-unique-covid-19-vaccine/283-9c091f9d-3379-4252-9c30-e2f7447827b1

OncoSec and researchers at Providence Cancer Institute previously announced a collaboration to conduct a first-in-human trial of OncoSec's CORVax12 vaccine candidate. Providence has filed an Investigator-Initiated Investigational New Drug (IND) Application with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and plans to initiate a phase 1 vaccine trial of healthy adult volunteers upon FDA clearance.

CORVax12 consists of OncoSec's existing product candidate, TAVO(tm) (interleukin-12 or "IL-12" plasmid), in combination with an immunogenic component of the SARS-CoV-2 virus recently developed by researchers at NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ("NIAID") and licensed to OncoSec on a non-exclusive basis. Specifically, OncoSec's CORVax12 vaccine approach combines the co-administration of TAVO with a DNA-encodable version of the SARS-CoV-2 spike or "S" glycoprotein to enhance immunogenicity of the component developed by scientists at the NIAID Vaccine Research Center. CORVax12 is designed to drive a coordinated vaccine response, capable of drawing upon the innate, adaptive humoral, and adaptive cellular arms. R