HOUSTON, Aug. 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alaunos Therapeutics, Inc. (“Alaunos” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: TCRT), a clinical-stage oncology-focused cell therapy company, today announced that it has been accepted to present a proffered talk at the CRI-ENCI-AACR Sixth International Cancer Immunotherapy Conference (CICON) being held in New York, NY from September 28 – October 1, 2022.
Details of the presentation are as follows:
Title: Objective clinical response by KRAS mutation-specific TCR-T cell therapy in previously treated advanced Non-small cell lung cancer
Presenter: Marcelo V. Negrao, MD, Department of Thoracic-Head & Neck Med Onc, Division of Cancer Medicine at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Date and Time: Friday, September 30, 2022, 8:30am ET
Session Title: Session 6: Cellular Therapies: Engineering T cells
About Alaunos Therapeutics
Alaunos is a clinical-stage oncology-focused cell therapy company, focused on developing T-cell receptor (TCR) therapies based on its proprietary, non-viral Sleeping Beauty gene transfer technology and its TCR library targeting shared tumor-specific hotspot mutations in key oncogenic genes including KRAS, TP53 and EGFR. The Company has a clinical and strategic collaboration with the National Cancer Institute. For more information, please visit www.alaunos.com.
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