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MiNK Therapeutics Presents First-in-Kind Allo-iNKTs Combination Data in 2L Gastric Cancer at AACR IO Annual Meeting
Addition of AgenT-797 with Checkpoint Inhibitors, BOT/BAL, and Chemotherapy Demonstrates Robust Immune Activation, Offering Potential to Overcome Refractory Gastric CancersNEW YORK, Feb. 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MiNK Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: INKT), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering the development of allogeneic, off-the-shelf invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cell therapies, today presented new translational data from its ongoing Phase 2 study of allo-iNKTs, agenT-797,
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