SQZ-AAC-KRAS / STEMCELL Technologies - LARVOL DELTA

STEMCELL Technologies Announces Successful Completion of Asset Purchase Agreement with SQZ Biotechnologies Company [Google translation] (Businesswire) - "STEMCELL Technologies is pleased to announce that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of SQZ Biotechnologies Company...This transaction, which was approved today by SQZ shareholders, marks another important milestone for STEMCELL, Canada's largest biotechnology company....Once the SQZ transaction was approved, STEMCELL was able to acquire substantially all of SQZ's assets, including its entire portfolio of more than 400 patents and trademarks, other intellectual property rights such as copyrights and trade secrets, proprietary equipment and its master license from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

M&A • Cervical Cancer • CNS Disorders • Gynecologic Cancers • Head and Neck Cancer • Oncology • Parkinson's Disease • Solid Tumor

SQZ Biotechnologies Announces Strategic Prioritization of SQZ Enhanced Antigen Presenting Cells Program; Armon Sharei to Step Down as Chief Executive Officer (Businesswire) - "SQZ Biotechnologies...announced the strategic prioritization of its clinical portfolio to concentrate on the development of its second-generation enhanced Antigen Presenting Cells (eAPC) cell therapy program, focused on HPV16 positive recurrent, locally advanced, or metastatic solid tumors....The company will transition its first-generation Antigen Presenting Cells (APC) therapy to its second-generation enhanced Antigen Presenting Cells therapy and has initiated switching select APC sites to the eAPC clinical trial....Additionally, the company will pause its APC, Activating Antigen Carrier (AAC) and Tolerizing Antigen Carrier (TAC) programs. This portfolio prioritization allows the company to deliver data readouts for the SQZ® eAPC program’s highest-dose monotherapy cohort, which the company anticipates in mid-2023. The company will continue to explore partnerships and collaborations for its earlier stage assets and programs, including TAC..."

Commercial • Licensing / partnership • P1/2 data • Oncology • Solid Tumor