Patent 9259459 was granted and assigned to Celldex Therapeutics on February, 2016 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention provides novel antibody vaccine conjugates and methods of using the same to induce a cytotoxic T cell (CTL) response. In a particular, embodiment, the vaccine conjugate includes a human chorionic gonadotropin beta subunit (βhCG) antigen linked to an anti-mannose receptor (MR) antibody.