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HCW Biologics Reports First Quarter 2022 Financial Results and Recent Business Highlights
MIRAMAR, Fla., May 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HCW Biologics Inc. (the “Company” or “HCW Biologics”) (NASDAQ: HCWB), a biopharmaceutical company focused on
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[{"type":"text","content":"MIRAMAR, Fla., May 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HCW Biologics Inc. (the “Company” or “HCW Biologics”) (NASDAQ: HCWB), a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel immunotherapies to lengthen health span by disrupting the link between chronic, low-grade inflammation and age-related diseases, today reported financial results and recent business highlights for its first quarter ended March 31, 2022. “We continue to successfully execute our clinical development strategy which is based on our unique approach toward inflammaging,” stated Hing C. Wong, Founder and CEO of HCW Biologics Inc. “HCW Biologics is developing immunotherapeutics that do not treat a single indication or symptom. Our approach is to treat a patient systemically to remove the underlying problems causing a condition.” Dr. Wong continued, “Our plan is to use difficult-to-treat cancer indications as the gateway for clinical development of our lead product candidate, HCW9218. In preclinical studies, we have demonstrated that HCW9218 can effectively reduce therapy-induced cancer and normal tissue cellular senescence to augment the anti-tumor activities of chemotherapies and alleviate their side effects. In addition, HCW9218 has been shown to significantly enhance anti-tumor activity of immune checkpoint therapies in a preclinical setting.” Dr. Wong further stated, “We believe that HCW9218 also has potential as a treatment for a broad range of age-related pathologies beyond cancer, through our discovery that HCW9218 can reduce accumulated senescent cells due to the naturally aging process or metabolic dysfunction, leading to the improvement of health span of experimental animals.” Business Highlights: At the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Immunologists held on May 6 -10, 2022, HCW Biologics showcased two novel groups of fusion molecules invented with the Company’s proprietary and versatile TOBI™ discovery platform. Two posters were presented which are available on the Company’s website: A “kick and expand” strategy to generate large numbers of Cytokine-Induced-Memory-Like NK cells for adoptive cell therapy for the treatment of cancer using novel fusion proteins HCW9201 and HCW9206. Robust human regulatory T cell expansion with fusion proteins HCW9302 and HCW9213 circumvents need for magnetic-bead or feeder cell approaches f...