mRNA-4157/V940, an investigational personalized mRNA cancer vaccine, in combination with Keytruda (pembrolizumab) was granted Priority Medicines scheme designation by the European Medicines Agency for the adjuvant treatment of patients with high-risk stage III/IV melanoma following complete resection.
Roger Lo, professor of medicine, dermatology, and molecular and medical pharmacology and investigator at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, was awarded a $2 million grant from NIH to investigate innovative strategies to prevent drug resistance in melanoma treatment and improve the effectiveness of MAPK inhibitors, a common treatment for patients with melanomas that carry the BRAFV600 mutation.
