NEEDHAM, Mass., May 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (Candel or the Company) (NASDAQ:CADL), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing multimodal biological immunotherapies to help patients fight cancer, today announced it will be hosting a webcasted R&D breakfast panel featuring prominent scientific and medical thought leaders to discuss topline overall survival data from its phase 2 clinical trial of CAN-2409, its multimodal biological immunotherapy candidate, in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC).
The event will be held on Monday, June 3, 2024, at 7:00 AM Central Time, during the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in Chicago.
Paul Peter Tak, MD, PhD, FMEDSci, President and Chief Executive Officer of Candel, will be hosting the event and moderating the guest panel, which includes:
- Charu Aggarwal, MD, MPH, FASCO
Leslie M. Heisler Associate Professor for Lung Cancer Excellence, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
- Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD
Chief of Medical Oncology
Yale School of Medicine
Candel Research Advisory Board
- Daniel H. Sterman, MD, FCCP, ATSF, DAABIP
Professor and Director, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
NYU Langone Health
A live webcast will be available by selecting Events and Presentations, under the News & Events tab, in the Investors section on Candeltx.com. A replay of the webcast will be archived for up to 90 days following the session date.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Media representatives interested in attending the event should please contact Kyle Evans at CandelPR@westwicke.com.
About CAN-2409
CAN-2409, Candel's most advanced multimodal biological immunotherapy candidate, is an investigational, off-the-shelf, replication-defective adenovirus designed to deliver the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (HSV-tk) gene to a patient's specific tumor and induce an individualized, systemic anti-tumor immune response. HSV-tk is an enzyme that locally converts orally administered valacyclovir into a toxic metabolite that kills nearby cancer cells. Together, this regimen is designed to induce an individualized and specific CD8+ T cell mediated response against the injected tumor and uninjected distant metastases for broad anti-tumor activity, based on in situ vaccination against a variety of tumor antigens. Because of its versatility, CAN-2409 ...