Business Strategy

CEL-SCI's vision is to change the way cancer is treated. We strive to develop novel immune-based therapies with potential to utilize the body's own immune defense system against the disease with the possibility of minimal toxicity to normal cells and organ systems.

CEL-SCI's lead investigational therapy, Multikine® (Leukocyte Interleukin, Injection), is currently being developed as a potential therapeutic agent directed at enabling the immune system to use the body's own anti-tumor immune response. Multikine (Leukocyte Interleukin, Injection) is the full name of this investigational therapy, which, for simplicity, is referred to in the remainder of this page as Multikine*. Multikine is being developed as a first-line therapy for cancer meaning that it is being studied for use before a patient receives any other therapy for their advanced primary head and neck cancer.

The goal and hope is to demonstrate that this investigational therapy can help make a patient's initial course of treatment more successful. Should data from CEL-SCI's ongoing Phase III clinical study demonstrate that Multikine performs as intended based upon it meeting its pre-specified endpoints, and should the FDA after reviewing the totality of the manufacturing, preclinical, and clinical data and other information provided to them in a Bilologics License Application agree and see fit to issue a Biologics License, then the potential that Multikine could be administered to most advanced primary head and neck cancer patients before they begin their first course of traditional therapy could likely be realized.

As we continue pursuing that development program, we have three core beliefs with respect to building CEL-SCI into a successful biotech company that form our R&D:

History shows that the most successful biotech companies held on to at least some of their key marketing rights. Our plan is to do the same and to diversify risk by leveraging our technology and investigational products, once approved, into other indications, such as breast and skin cancer, rather than by bringing in licensing partners for all of the marketing rights.  We do, however, expect to partner our technologies in some parts of the world.

The end of the long Multikine development program for CEL-SCI is near! Multikine has been cleared by regulators in 9 countries, including the United States, for a global Phase III trial. CEL-SCI's Phase III clinical trial has been initiated and is currently enrolling patients. The pivotal Phase III study, which began in late December 2010, will enroll about 880 patients in an open-label, multinational, global clinical study. With these important milestones having been reached, we are moving forward rapidly with a real sense of purpose and excitement.  We believe strongly that our time has come!

* Multikine is the trademark that CEL-SCI has registered for this investigational therapy, and this proprietary name is subject to FDA review in connection with our future anticipated regulatory submission for approval. Multikine has not been licensed or approved for sale, barter or exchange by the FDA or by any other regulatory agency. Similarly, its safety or efficacy has not been established for any use. Moreover, no definitive conclusions can be drawn from the early-phase, clinical-trials data summarized on this page or elsewhere on this website involving the investigational therapy Multikine (Leukocyte Interleukin, Injection). Further research is required, and early-phase clinical trial results must be confirmed in the well-controlled, Phase III clinical trial of this investigational therapy that is currently in progress.