On November 13, 2020 I-Mab (the "Company") (Nasdaq: IMAB), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company committed to the discovery, development and commercialization of novel biologics, reported that it will hold a call with investors on Friday, November 13 at 8:20 a.m. ET to provide deep dive analysis of preliminary clinical efficacy results of its U.S. phase 1 clinical trial (NCT03934814) evaluating lemzoparlimab (also known as TJC4) for the treatment of relapsed or refractory solid tumors (Press release, I-Mab Biopharma, NOV 13, 2020, View Source [SID1234570923]). The results are being presented this week at the 2020 Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) (Free SITC Whitepaper) Annual Meeting. The purpose of the call is to provide an expanded analysis of the clinical efficacy signal from the U.S. phase 1 clinical trial, which is not previously discussed.
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I-Mab Conference Call and Webcast Information
Investors and analysts are invited to join the conference call on November 13 at 8:20 a.m. ET using the following dial-in information:
A live webcast and an archived replay of the conference call can be accessed on the Company’s investor relations website at View Source
A telephone replay will be available approximately two hours after the conclusion of the call by dialing +1 855-452-5696 (U.S.), +61 2 8199-0299 (International), 400-632-2162 (Mainland China), or 800-963-117 (Hong Kong). The conference ID number for the replay is 4556519. The replay will be available through November 20, 2020.
About CD47 and Lemzoparlimab
CD47 is a cell surface protein over-expressed in a wide variety of cancers and can act to protect tumors by delivering a "don’t eat me" signal to otherwise tumor-engulfing macrophages. CD47 antibody blocks this signal and enables macrophages to attack tumor cells, making it a potentially promising cancer drug. However, development of CD47 antibody as a cancer therapy is hampered by its hematologic side effects, such as severe anemia, caused by natural binding of CD47 antibody to red blood cells. In a scientific breakthrough, scientists at I-Mab have discovered a unique CD47 antibody, lemzoparlimab, that works efficiently to target tumor cells while exerting minimal untoward effect on red blood cells, thus avoiding severe anemia.
Lemzoparlimab’s hematologic safety advantage and superb anti-tumor activities have been demonstrated previously in a series of robust pre-clinical studies. The results of the phase 1 clinical trial have provided further, clinical validation of this differentiation in patients with cancer. I-Mab continues to advance a combination study of lemzoparlimab with Keytruda for the treatment of solid tumors and with Rituxan for the treatment of patients with lymphoma in the U.S., in addition to an ongoing clinical trial with patients with AML/MDS in China.
In September 2020, I-Mab and AbbVie entered into a global strategic partnership to develop and commercialize lemzoparlimab, including to design and conduct further clinical trials to evaluate lemzoparlimab in multiple cancers globally and in China. The collaboration is subject to certain pre-closing conditions.