Kiromic Looks To Prove Itself In Lung Cancer

Emerging Company Profile: Encouraging, but early, data on a gamma-delta T-cell therapy could position Kiromic BioPharma for deal-making.    

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Kiromic BioPharma, Inc. has had a tricky time so far, having had to close a handful of clinical trials of its T-cell therapies owing to poor patient accrual and undergoing delisting from the NASDAQ last September. But now it has reported data on the first two patients in a clinical trial in lung cancer and Deltacel, an allogeneic gamma-delta T-cell product, looks promising.

Key Takeaways
  • Kiromic BioPharma is developing a gamma-delta T-cell therapy for lung cancer

“We had high confidence about what this product will be able to deliver. And so far, we can say that...

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