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Cue Biopharma Reports Third Quarter 2020 Results and CUE-101 Phase 1 Dose Escalation Trial Updates
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cue Biopharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: CUE), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company engineering a novel class of
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[{"type":"text","content":"CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cue Biopharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: CUE), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company engineering a novel class of injectable biologics designed to selectively engage and modulate targeted T cells within the patient’s body, provided a business update for the third quarter of 2020.\n “We are very pleased with the progress we continue to make advancing CUE-101 through the ongoing Phase 1 monotherapy dose escalation trial,” said Daniel Passeri, chief executive officer of Cue Biopharma. “We are encouraged by the datasets to date from this ongoing study, have completed dosing cohort 6, at 4mg/kg and were recently cleared by the Safety Review Committee to begin dosing cohort 7, at 8mg/kg.” Anish Suri, chief scientific officer and president of Cue Biopharma, added, “We believe that we remain well-positioned for continued execution of our development plans for our lead asset CUE-101, which is representative of our IL-2 based CUE-100 series, and the continued build-out of our pipeline via our proprietary protein engineering approach, as also exemplified by recent scientific presentations at the SITC meeting last week.” Third Quarter 2020 Financial Results Collaboration revenue was $704,000 and $984,000 for the three months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively. Research and development expenses were $7.5 million and $5.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively. This increase of approximately $2.2 million was due primarily to an increase in clinical trial activity, drug manufacturing costs, and stock-based compensation expense, offset by a decrease in travel expenses during the third quarter of 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic continued to hamper business travel throughout the quarter. General and administrative expenses were $3.3 million and $2.8 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively. This increase of approximately $0.5 million was due primarily to increases in stock-based compensation and legal fees offset by a decrease in travel expenses for the third quarter of 2020. “As of September 30, 2020, we had approximately $91.8 million in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities, which we believe will allow us to support the clinical development of our lead asset CUE-101 into the second quarter of 2022,” said ...