Bellicum Pharmaceuticals to Participate in Jefferies 6th Annual IO Cell Therapy Summit

HOUSTON, March 27, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bellicum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. BLCM, a leader in developing novel, controllable cellular immunotherapies for cancers and orphan inherited blood disorders, today announced participation in the Jefferies 6^th Annual IO Cell Therapy Summit taking place in Boston. Bellicum's President & CEO Rick Fair and Head of Research, Aaron Foster, Ph.D., will provide an overview of the company and its development programs during a fireside chat on April 5, 2019 at 9:10 a.m. EDT.

About Bellicum Pharmaceuticals

Bellicum is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company striving to deliver cures through controllable cell therapies. The company's next-generation product candidates are differentiated by powerful cell signaling technologies designed to produce more effective CAR-T and allogeneic T cell therapies. Bellicum's lead GoCAR-T® candidate, BPX-601, is designed to be a more efficacious CAR-T cell product capable of overriding key immune inhibitory mechanisms. Bellicum's rivo-cel product candidate is an allogeneic polyclonal T cell therapy that has shown promising clinical trial results in reducing leukemia relapse after a stem cell transplant. More information can be found at www.bellicum.com. ​

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