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Purple Biotech Highlights Significant Advantages of the Novel CAPTN-3 Tri-Specific Antibody Platform at the EACR 2025 Annual Congress
REHOVOT, Israel, June 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Purple Biotech Ltd. ("Purple Biotech" or "the Company") (NASDAQ/TASE: PPBT), a clinical-stage company developing first-in-class therapies that seek to overcome tumor immune evasion and drug resistance, today announced the presentation of new preclinical data on its novel CAPTN-3 tri-specific antibody platform in a poster presentation at the 2025 Annual Congress of the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR 2025), that was held in Lisbon,
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