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Monday, April 1, 2019

#AACR: Vaccibody, Nektar Present New Preclinical Data from Collaboration

Vaccibody AS and Nektar Therapeutics (Nasdaq: NKTR) today announced the presentation of new preclinical data for VB10.NEO, a personalized neoantigen cancer vaccine, combined with bempegaldesleukin (NKTR-214 or bempeg), a CD122-preferential IL-2 pathway agonist. These data were presented today in a poster session at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2019.
‘We are excited to present these novel preclinical data that show combining bempeg with VB10.NEO synergize to increase both the breadth and the depth of the neoantigen-specific immune response. These unique and non-overlapping mechanisms produced an expansion of the VB10.NEO elicited neoantigen-specific T cells and demonstrated enhanced anti-tumor efficacy in mice. We look forward to evaluating this novel immuno-oncology combination in a clinical study in patients with advanced or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck later this year,’ said Agnete B. Fredriksen, Ph.D., Vaccibody’s President and Chief Scientific Officer.

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