QUILT-3.006 for Recurrent Medullary Thyroid Cancer

GI-6207 is a heat-killed, recombinant yeast-based vaccine engineered to express the full length human carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), with a modified gene coding sequence to code for a single amino acid substitution (asparagine to aspartic acid) at the native protein amino acid position 610, which is designed to enhance immunogenicity. A plasmid vector containing the modified human CEA gene is used to transfect the parental yeast strain (S. cerevisiae W303 - a haploid strain with known mutations from wild-type yeast) to produce the final recombinant vaccine product.