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BriaCell awarded $400K NCI grant to advance off-the-shelf immunotherapy

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BriaCell Therapeutics Corp. received an NCI research grant to advance the company’s platform of personalized off-the-shelf immunotherapies for cancer. The grant award of non-dilutive funds,  totalling $399,918 for 2023, is titled “An off-the-shelf tumor cell vaccine with HLA-matching alleles for the personalized treatment of advanced solid tumors.” 

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