James Noble, Adaptimmune CEO, to Participate in Upcoming Leerink Partners Roundtable Series: Rare Disease & Immuno-Oncology

PHILADELPHIA and OXFORD, U.K., Sept. 22, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Adaptimmune Therapeutics plc ADAP, a leader in T-cell therapy to treat cancer, today announced that James Noble, Adaptimmune's Chief Executive Officer, will participate in the upcoming Leerink Partners Roundtable Series: Rare Disease and Immuno-oncology on Thursday, September 28, 2017 at 10:30 AM EDT (3:30 PM BST) in Holmes I/II at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel.

The conference will be webcast live for investors through the investor section of www.adaptimmune.com and available for a period of 30 days following the conference.

About Adaptimmune

Adaptimmune is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel cancer immunotherapy products. The Company's unique SPEAR (Specific Peptide Enhanced Affinity Receptor) T‑cell platform enables the engineering of T-cells to target and destroy cancer, including solid tumors. Adaptimmune has a number of proprietary clinical programs, and is also developing its NY-ESO SPEAR T-cell program under a strategic collaboration and license agreement with GlaxoSmithKline. The Company is located in Philadelphia, USA and Oxfordshire, U.K. For more information, please visit http://www.adaptimmune.com

Forward-Looking Statements

This release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA). These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties. Such risks and uncertainties could cause our actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements, and include, without limitation: the success, cost and timing of our product development activities and clinical trials and our ability to successfully advance our TCR therapeutic candidates through the regulatory and commercialization processes. For a further description of the risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements, as well as risks relating to our business in general, we refer you to our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on August 3, 2017, and our other SEC filings. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date the statements were made and we do not undertake any obligation to update such forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances. 

Adaptimmune Contacts

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