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Data From Prima BioMed AIPAC Clinical Trial to be Presented at 2017 ASCO ConferenceSYDNEY, Australia, May 17, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Prima BioMed Ltd (ASX:PRR) (NASDAQ:PBMD) (“Prima” or the “Company”) today announced that an abstract and poster have been accepted for presentation at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 53rd annual meeting to be held in Chicago, Illinois, 2-6 June 2017. The poster presentation, entitled “Combination of paclitaxel and LAG-3Ig (IMP321), a novel MHC class II agonist, as a first-line chemoimmunotherapy in patients with metastatic breast carcinoma (MBC): Interim results from the run-in phase of a placebo controlled randomized phase II” will be presented by lead author, Dr Francois P. Duhoux from Université Catholique de Louvain, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium. It will provide initial safety, immune-monitoring and activity results of the 15 patient safety run-in phase of Prima’s AIPAC clinical trial for patients with hormone receptor positive (HR+) MBC combining IMP321 with first-line weekly paclitaxel. The poster presentation will take place from 8:00am to 11:30am on Sunday, 4 June in Hall A. The shorter abstract (number 1062), just containing safety data, is available on the meeting website at http://am.asco.org/abstracts. The full poster presentation will be available from Monday 5 June, with a link provided on the Prima BioMed website – www.primabiomed.com.au About AIPAC (Active Immunotherapy PAClitaxel) About Prima BioMed Prima BioMed is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and on the NASDAQ in the US. For further information please visit www.primabiomed.com.au. For further information please contact: U.S. Investors: Matthew Beck, The Trout Group LLC +1 (646) 378-2933; [email protected] Australian Investors/Media: Matthew Gregorowski, Citadel-MAGNUS +61 2 8234 0105; [email protected] |