Northwest Biotherapeutics

NorthWest Biotherapeutics (NWBT)

Type	Public (Nasdaq: [1])
Industry	Pharmaceuticals
Headquarters	Bothell, Washington
Products	DCVax Brain DCVax Prostate See more complete products listing.
Website	www.nwbio.com

Northwest Biotherapeutics is an American pharmaceutical company that focuses on developing immunotherapies against different types of cancer.

Mission

NWBT's stated goals stress product quality and purity, innovation, and efficient production.[2]

Technology

The DCVax technology upon which NWBT's therapies rely involves injecting cancer patients with dendritic cells, which contain high levels of the same antigens found in tumor cells. The immune system, alerted by these antigens, attacks the cancer as well as the injected cells.

Products

DCVax Brain is set to be distributed at select centers in Switzerland by September 2007.^[1] DCVax Prostate has also been approved by the FDA for trials.[3]

Footnotes and references

1. ^ "First brain cancer vaccine approved in Switzerland". Yahoo! News. 2007-07-09. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070709/hl_afp/britainswitzerlandus_070709081252;_ylt=ArGCEiDyCusWMNb.7GuF5_wE1vAI. Retrieved 2007-07-09. ^{[dead link]}

External links

• Northwest Biotherapeutics homepage

NWBT NASDAQ: {{{1}}}

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