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Omeros Corporation To Introduce Its Proprietary T-CAT™ Program for the Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Pathogens in Plenary Session at Upcoming European Congress on Infectious Diseases
SEATTLE, April 08, 2025--Omeros Corporation (Nasdaq: OMER) today announced that the first public presentation of its proprietary Targeted Complement Activating TherapyTM (T-CATTM) platform will occur at the European Congress on Infectious Diseases 2025 in Rome, Italy on Monday, April 14. The plenum presentation, titled Augmenting cytotoxicity of pathogen-specific antibodies which initiate complement activation independent of the classical pathway, will be delivered by Prof. Wilhelm Schwaeble, Ph
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