Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium - Celyad (Euronext Brussels and Paris, and Nasdaq: CYAD), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of CAR-T cell therapies, today announced that three abstracts related to the company’s autologous NKG2D-based CAR-T candidates for the treatment of relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia (r/r AML) and myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) have been accepted for presentation at the 61st Amercican Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, which will be held from December 7-10, 2019, in Orlando, Florida. In addition, management will host a live event at ASH for analysts and investors on Monday, December 9, to review the data from the three posters, as well as updates to the company’s development program for r/r AML and MDS and proprietary OptimAb manufacturing process.
Filippo Petti, chief executive officer of Celyad, noted, “We look forward to providing an update at next month’s ASH Annual Meeting on our autologous CAR-T program focused on the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes, including the latest clinical results from the CYAD-01 Phase 1 THINK and DEPLETHINK trials. In addition, we are excited to highlight the latest preclinical data from our next-generation NKG2D-based candidate CYAD-02 and our OptimAb manufacturing process, which underpins both autologous CAR-T assets within the program.”