Press Release - May 13, 2015
Heidelberg, Germany, May 13, 2015 – Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing highly targeted cancer immunotherapies, announced today that pre-clinical data from a combination study of Affimed’s lead candidate AFM13 and checkpoint modulators, including checkpoint inhibitor PD-1, will be presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2015 Annual Meeting being held May 29 – June 2, 2015 in Chicago, IL.
In addition, three posters by Affimed and its partners Amphivena and Janssen on its collaborative CD33/CD3 program for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) will be presented. The program further validates the robustness of Affimed’s proprietary TandAb technology platform, allowing for rapid identification of candidate molecules which are stable, highly expressed, and display significant in vitro and in vivo cytotoxicity.
Full abstracts of corporate and collaborator presentations can be accessed on the ASCO website at abstracts.asco.org.
Affimed (Nasdaq: AFMD) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing highly targeted cancer immunotherapies. Affimed’s product candidates are being developed in the field of immuno-oncology, which represents an innovative approach to cancer treatment that seeks to harness the body’s own immune defenses to fight tumor cells. The most potent cells of the human defense arsenal are types of white blood cells called natural killer cells, or NK-cells, and T-cells. Affimed’s proprietary, next-generation bispecific antibodies, called TandAbs for their tandem antibody structure, are designed to direct and establish a bridge between either NK-cells or T-cells and cancer cells, triggering a signal cascade that leads to the destruction of cancer cells. Affimed has focused its research and development efforts on three proprietary TandAb programs for which it retains global commercial rights. For more information, please visit www.affimed.com.
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