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Cancer vaccine startup comes back to life

A REVIVAL: Dr. Annie 
De Groot’s cancer vaccine development company in Providence was dormant for several years, but it’s been restarted at an opportune time, when the favorable results of a related clinical trial have given the sector a boost. 
PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO
A REVIVAL: Dr. Annie 
De Groot’s cancer vaccine development company in Providence was dormant for several years, but it’s been restarted at an opportune time, when the favorable results of a related clinical trial have given the sector a boost. 
PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

In 2016, Dr. Annie De Groot received a cry for help. A scientific researcher, De Groot had worked for decades on computational vaccinology – the use of algorithms and data sets to assist in vaccine development – and had co-founded the biotech company EpiVax Inc. when a patient’s husband asked her to analyze the genetic

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