Heat Biologics Tightens Belt To Reach Late-2016 Inflection Points

Biotech striving to hold on financially until it can deliver top-line data for bladder and lung cancer immunotherapy candidates, but then it will have to content with Roche entering the bladder cancer market with its PD-L1 inhibitor.

Heat Biologics Inc. is doing everything it can to keep going with its Phase II bladder cancer immunotherapy, announcing several cost-reduction measures April 7, but it will be tough going in a crowded field that will soon see the long shadow of Roche's PD-L1 inhibitor atezolizumab.

The Durham, N.C., biotech announced a 22% staff cut as well as compensation reductions for its remaining leadership team and the voluntary resignations of two board members

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