Author: Vivek Chavda

Vivek Chavda, M. Pharm, is an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology, L. M. College of Pharmacy, Ahmedabad, India. He has more than 40 research articles in international journals. Krishnan Anand, Ph D, is a research scientist in the Department of Chemical Pathology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. He has more than 40 research articles in international journals and his research interests are in organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, chemical pathology, bioinformatics, and nanotechnology. Vasso Apostolopoulos, Ph D, is at the Institute for Health and Sport, Immunology and Translational Research Group, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. She received her Ph D in immunology in 1995 from the University of Melbourne, and the Advanced Certificate in Protein Crystallography from Birkbeck College, University of London. Professor Vasso Apostolopoulos is a world-renowned researcher who has been recognized with over 100 awards for the outstanding results of her research and she was named one of the most successful Greeks abroad by the prestigious Times magazine. Vasso was the first in the world to develop the concept of immunotherapy for cancer in the early 1990s, which today is used by hundreds of labs around the world. Immunotherapy aims to boost specific immune cells and program them to kill cancer cells; it was used by Vasso to develop the world”s first breast cancer vaccine with phase I, II, and III clinical trials completed. Of note, one of the studies now has long-term follow-up data showing that 20 years later those injected with the vaccine remain cancer free.