Regulatory Filings • Mar 15, 2018
Regulatory Filings
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Strasbourg, France, March 15, 2018, 7:30 a.m. CET - Transgene (Euronext Paris: TNG), a biotech company that designs and develops virus-based immunotherapies, will be presenting a poster with new and encouraging preclinical data on a novel viral vector (pseudocowpox, PCPV) at the AACR (American Association for Cancer Research) Annual Meeting 2018, Chicago, IL, USA, April 14 – 18.
The abstract was accepted for a late-breaking session of the congress and will be made available on the AACR Online Itinerary Planner and Meeting App on April 13, 2018.
Poster title: Pseudocowpox: A next generation viral vector for cancer immunotherapy. A poxviral vector selected for its remarkable ability to induce IFN-alpha.
Date, time, location: Tuesday Apr 17, 2018 1:00 PM 5:00 PM, Poster Section 44, Board 8
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Transgene:
Lucie Larguier Director Corporate Communications & IR +33 (0)3 88 27 91 04 [email protected]
Citigate Dewe Rogerson David Dible/Marine Perrier + 44 (0)20 7638 9571 [email protected]
Transgene (Euronext: TNG), part of Institut Mérieux, is a publicly traded French biotechnology company focused on designing and developing targeted immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases. Transgene's programs utilize viral vector technology with the goal of indirectly or directly killing infected or cancerous cells. The Company's lead clinical-stage programs are: TG4010, a therapeutic vaccine against non-small cell lung cancer, Pexa-Vec, an oncolytic virus against liver cancer, and TG4001, a therapeutic vaccine against HPV-positive head and neck cancers. The Company has several other programs in clinical development, including TG1050 (chronic hepatitis B) and TG6002 (solid tumors).
With its proprietary Invir.IOTM, Transgene builds on its expertise in viral vectors engineering to design a new generation of multifunctional oncolytic viruses.
Transgene is based in Strasbourg, France, and has additional operations in Lyon, as well as a joint venture in China. Additional information about Transgene is available at www.transgene.fr.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements, which are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. There can be no guarantee that (i) the results of pre-clinical work and prior clinical trials will be predictive of the results of the clinical trials currently underway, (ii) regulatory authorities will agree with the Company's further development plans for its therapies, or (iii) the Company will find development and commercialization partners for its therapies in a timely manner and on satisfactory terms and conditions, if at all. The occurrence of any of these risks could have a significant negative outcome for the Company's activities, perspectives, financial situation, results and development.
For a discussion of risks and uncertainties which could cause the Company's actual results, financial condition, performance or achievements to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, please refer to the Risk Factors ("Facteurs de Risques") section of the Document de Référence, available on the AMF website (http://www.amf-france.org) or on Transgene's website (www.transgene.fr). Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made, and Transgene undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future.
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