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Candel Therapeutics Announces an Upcoming Presentation at the AACR Annual Meeting Unveiling New Cancer Immunotherapy Candidate
NEEDHAM, Mass., March 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (Candel or the Company) (Nasdaq: CADL), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical
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[{"type":"text","content":"NEEDHAM, Mass., March 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (Candel or the Company) (Nasdaq: CADL), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing multimodal biological immunotherapies to help patients fight cancer, today announced the Company will present a poster presentation at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting taking place April 5-10, 2024, in San Diego, CA. The presentation will describe the second candidate from the enLIGHTEN™ Discovery Platform, a first-in-class multimodal immunotherapy candidate for induction of tertiary lymphoid structures as a novel therapeutic strategy for solid tumors. This abstract presentation at AACR accelerates the milestone associated with the unveiling of the second enLIGHTEN™ program, which was originally planned for the third quarter of 2024. Presentation details are as follows: Presentation Title: A first-in-class multimodal immunotherapy for induction of tertiary lymphoid structures as a novel therapeutic strategy for solid tumorsPresenter: Anne R. Diers, PhD, Senior Director, Research, Candel TherapeuticsAbstract Number: LB263Session Date and Time: Tuesday, April 9, 2024; 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM PTSession Title: Late-Breaking Research: Experimental and Molecular Therapeutics 3Location: San Diego Convention Center All regular abstracts are available for viewing via AACR’s online itinerary planner, located here. About the enLIGHTEN™ Discovery Platform The enLIGHTEN™ Discovery Platform is a systematic, iterative herpes simplex virus (HSV)-based discovery platform leveraging human biology and advanced analytics to create new multimodal biological immunotherapies for solid tumors. The enLIGHTEN™ Discovery Platform has been designed to deconvolute the characteristics of the tumor microenvironment related to clinical outcomes. These discoveries are rapidly translated into optimized multi-gene payloads of tumor modulators that can be delivered to the tumor microenvironment for specific indications, disease stages, and rationally designed therapeutic combinations. In 2022, the Company announced a discovery partnership with the University of Pennsylvania Center for Cellular Immunotherapies to create new viral immunotherapies that could enhance the efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapy in solid tumors. During the So...