Celldex Announces Presentations at the 2018 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting

HAMPTON, N.J., May 16, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Celldex Therapeutics, Inc. CLDX announced today that two abstracts will be presented at the 2018 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting being held June 1-5, 2018 in Chicago.

The schedule for the presentations is as follows:

• Abstract TPS6091: "A phase 2, multicenter, open-label study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of CDX-3379 in combination with cetuximab in patients with advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC)" (Bauman, et al)
  
  
  
  Poster Session: Head and Neck Cancer
  
  Date and Time: Saturday, June 2, 2018, 1:15 - 4:15 p.m. CDT
  
  Location: Hall A

• Abstract 3001: "Anti-CD27 agonist antibody varlilumab with nivolumab for colorectal and ovarian cancer: Phase 1/2 clinical trial results" (Sanborn, et al)
  
  
  
  Oral Abstract Session: Developmental Therapeutics—Immunotherapy
  
  Date and Time: Saturday, June 2, 2018, 3:12 - 3:24 p.m. CDT
  
  Location: Hall B1
  
  
  
  

Information in the abstracts, now available through ASCO's website at https://am.asco.org, is current as of the time of submission.

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Celldex is developing targeted therapeutics to address devastating diseases for which available treatments are inadequate. Our pipeline includes immunotherapies and other targeted biologics derived from a broad set of complementary technologies which have the ability to engage the human immune system and/or directly inhibit tumors to treat specific types of cancer or other diseases. Visit www.celldex.com.

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