Cellectis to Present at the American Society of Gene Cell Therapy Annual Meeting
Cellectis (Paris:ALCLS) (NASDAQ:CLLS) (Alternext: ALCLS; Nasdaq: CLLS), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing immunotherapies based on gene edited CAR T-cells, today announced that data on its gene-edited allogeneic off-the-shelf CAR T-cell immunotherapies (UCART) will be presented at the ASGCT 20th Annual Meeting. The meeting will be held from May 10th to 13th, 2017 in Washington, D.C., USA.
Oral presentation:
Development of Gene Edited Allogeneic CAR T-Cell Therapy
Philippe Duchateau, PhD. Chief Scientific Officer, Cellectis
Session: 300 Clinical Advancement of Gene Editing-Moving New Science to the Clinic Organized by the Clinical Trials and Regulatory Affairs Committee
Friday, May 12, 2017 from 8:35 AM to 9:10 AM EST
Lincoln 2, 3, 4
Poster presentations:
176 - Genome-Wide Analysis of TALEN® Activity in Primary Cells
Brian Busser, Sonal Temburni, Aymeric Duclert, Philippe Duchateau and Laurent Poirot
Session: Gene Targeting and Gene Correction I
Wednesday May 10, 2017 at 5:30 PM EST
Exhibit Hall A B South
114 UCART22: An Allogeneic Adoptive Immunotherapy for Leukemia Targeting CD22 with CAR T-cells
Anne-Sophie Gautron, Cécile Schiffer-Mannioui, Alan Marechal, Severine Thomas, Agnes Gouble, Laurent Poirot, Julianne Smith
Session: Cancer-Immunotherapy, Cancer Vaccines I
Wednesday May 10, 2017 from 5:30 PM to 7:30pm EST
Exhibit Hall A B South
372 - Manufacturing of Gene-Modified Mouse CAR T-Cells
Laurent Poirot, Brian Busser, Sonal Temburni, Philippe Duchateau
Session: Gene Targeting and Gene Correction II
Thursday May 11, 2017 from 5:15 PM to 7:15 PM EST
Exhibit Hall A B South
About Cellectis
Cellectis is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing immunotherapies based on gene-edited CAR T-cells (UCART). The company's mission is to develop a new generation of cancer therapies based on engineered T-cells. Cellectis capitalizes on its 17 years of expertise in genome engineering based on its flagship TALEN® products and meganucleases as well as its pioneering electroporation PulseAgile technology to create a new generation of immunotherapies. CAR technologies are designed to target surface antigens expressed on cells. Using its life-science-focused, pioneering genome-engineering technologies, Cellectis' goal is to create innovative products in multiple fields and with various target markets.
Cellectis is listed on the Nasdaq market (ticker: CLLS) and on the NYSE Alternext market (ticker: ALCLS). To find out more about us, visit our website: www.cellectis.com
Talking about gene editing? We do it. TALEN® is a registered trademark owned by the Cellectis Group
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VP of Corporate Strategy and Finance
simon.harnest@cellectis.com
