BOSTON, Aug. 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cue Biopharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: CUE), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a novel class of therapeutic biologics to selectively engage and modulate disease-specific T cells, provided a business and financial update for the second quarter 2024.
Recent Business Highlights
- Delivered oral presentation on updated data from ongoing Phase 1(b) trial of CUE-101 as a first line (1L) therapy in human papillomavirus positive (HPV+) recurrent/metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (R/M HNSCC), with standard of care (SOC) checkpoint inhibitor (CPI) KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) and as a monotherapy in second line and beyond (2L+) HPV+ R/M HNSCC, as well as a poster presentation on CUE-102 in Wilms’ Tumor 1 (WT1) positive cancers at the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting held in June.
- Further advanced autoimmune program CUE-401, partnered with Ono Pharmaceutical, Ltd., and CUE-501, our lead CUE-500 series asset.
- Programs are designed to address significant unmet medical need in large patient populations across numerous autoimmune and inflammatory diseases
- Preclinical data has progressed well with consistent positive activity in multiple disease models
- Initiated strategic prioritization of autoimmune programs to focus upon near-term and intermediate value creation potential, to enable optimization and reduction of capital requirements, while retaining oncology programs, CUE-101 and CUE-102, as promising clinical data further matures.
- Positive observations as updated data continues to mature from ongoing oncology clinical trials, CUE-101 and CUE-102.
- CUE-101 in combination with pembrolizumab in 1L R/M HNSCC, as of August 4, 2024, demonstrated an objective response rate (ORR) of 46% in all patients with combined positive score (CPS) ≥1 and 50% ORR with CPS