Bellicum Announces Late-Breaking Poster Presentation on TCR Product Candidate with Activation Switch at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2016 Annual Meeting
The presentation, titled “Go-TCR: Inducible MyD88/CD40 (iMC) Enhances Proliferation and Survival of Tumor-Specific TCR-Modified T Cells, Increasing Anti-Tumor Efficacy” will highlight preclinical data demonstrating that its novel “go” switch can augment activation and expansion of TCR-engineered T cells while sensitizing tumors to T cells via cytokine-induced MHC class I upregulation.
The poster will be available in the Events & Presentations section of the Bellicum website at the time of the presentation.
Presentation Details
- Abstract Number: LB-084
- Presentation Title: “Go-TCR: Inducible MyD88/CD40 (iMC) Enhances Proliferation and Survival of Tumor-Specific TCR-Modified T cells, Increasing Anti-Tumor Efficacy”
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Presentation Date:
Monday, April 18, 2016 -
Presentation Time:
8:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. CDT
About
Bellicum is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing cellular immunotherapies for cancers and orphan inherited blood disorders. Bellicum is using its proprietary Chemical Induction of Dimerization (CID) technology platform to engineer and control components of the immune system. Bellicum is developing next-generation product candidates in some of the most important areas of cellular immunotherapy, including hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), and CAR T and TCR cell therapies. More information can be found at www.bellicum.com.
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