On June 7, 2021 Mustang Bio, Inc. ("Mustang") (NASDAQ: MBIO), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on translating today’s medical breakthroughs in cell and gene therapies into potential cures for hematologic cancers, solid tumors and rare genetic diseases, reported that it will host a key opinion leader ("KOL") webinar on MB-106 CD20-targeted CAR T cell therapy, which is being developed for high-risk B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas ("B-NHL") and chronic lymphocytic leukemia ("CLL"), on Tuesday, June 15, 2021, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (Press release, Mustang Bio, JUN 7, 2021, View Source [SID1234583664]).

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The webinar will feature a presentation by Mazyar Shadman, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ("Fred Hutch"), who will discuss interim results from the ongoing Phase 1/2 clinical trial investigating the safety and efficacy of MB-106 CD20-targeted CAR T for B-NHL and CLL. These data have been selected for an e-poster presentation at the European Hematology Association (EHA) (Free EHA Whitepaper) 2021 Virtual Congress ("EHA2021"), which is being held June 9-17. Dr. Shadman, along with colleague Brian Till, M.D., also an Associate Professor at Fred Hutch, will be available to answer questions following the formal presentations.

Mustang’s management team will also provide more details on the planned MB-106 Phase 1/2 clinical trial to be conducted under Mustang’s Investigational New Drug ("IND") application. The Company recently announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") accepted its IND to initiate a multicenter Phase 1/2 clinical trial investigating the safety, tolerability and efficacy of MB-106 for relapsed or refractory B-NHL and CLL.

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About Dr. Shadman
Mazyar Shadman, M.D., M.P.H., is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington ("UW") and Fred Hutch. He is a hematologic malignancies expert who specializes in treating patients with lymphoma and CLL.

Dr. Shadman is involved in clinical trials using novel therapeutic agents, immunotherapy (CAR T cells), and stem cell transplant for treatment of lymphoid malignancies with a focus on CLL. He also studies the clinical outcomes of patients using institutional and collaborative retrospective cohort studies.

Dr. Shadman received his M.D. from Tehran University in Iran. He finished an internal medicine internship and residency training at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. He completed his fellowship training in hematology and medical oncology at UW and Fred Hutch. Dr. Shadman also earned an M.P.H. degree from UW and was a fellow for the National Cancer Institute’s cancer research training program at Fred Hutch, where he studied cancer epidemiology.

About Dr. Till
Brian Till, M.D., is an Associate Professor in the Clinical Research Division of Fred Hutch and Department of Medicine at UW. His laboratory focuses on developing chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-based immunotherapies for non-Hodgkin lymphoma and understanding why CAR T cell therapies work for some patients but not for others. He led the first published clinical trial testing CAR T cells as a treatment for lymphoma patients. Dr. Till also has a clinical practice treating patients with lymphoma and attends on the stem cell transplantation and immunotherapy services at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.

On June 7, 2021 Bausch Health Companies Inc. (NYSE/TSX: BHC) ("Bausch Health," the "Company" or the "Offeror") reported the results to date of its pending cash tender offer (the "Tender Offer"), to purchase any and all of its outstanding 7.00% Senior Secured Notes due 2024 (the "Notes"), as well as the anticipated early settlement date for the Tender Offer on June 8, 2021 (the "Early Settlement Date") (Press release, Bausch Health, JUN 7, 2021, View Source [SID1234583680]).

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The terms and conditions of the Tender Offer are described in an Offer to Purchase dated May 24, 2021 (as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, the "Offer to Purchase"). All terms and conditions of the Tender Offer remain unchanged as set forth in the Offer to Purchase.

As of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on June 7, 2021 (the "Early Tender Date"), the aggregate principal amount of Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn is $545,079,000. The Offeror expects to accept for purchase all of the Notes validly tendered prior to the Early Tender Date, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions to such Tender Offer. The Offeror expects that the conditions to the Tender Offer will be satisfied as of the Early Settlement Date.

The total consideration for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes is $1,019.25 plus accrued and unpaid interest (the "Total Consideration") and is expected to be paid on the Early Settlement Date to the holders of Notes tendered and accepted for purchase as of the Early Tender Date. The Total Consideration includes an early tender premium of $30.00 per $1,000 principal amount of Notes accepted for purchase as of the Early Tender Date. In addition to the Total Consideration, all Holders of Notes accepted for purchase pursuant to the Tender Offer will also receive accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes from the last interest payment date to, but not including, the Early Settlement Date.

The Tender Offer remains open and will expire at 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on June 21, 2021 (such date and time, as it may be extended, the "Expiration Date"). No tenders will be valid if submitted after the Expiration Date. The Offeror expects to purchase any remaining Notes tendered following the Early Settlement Date that have been validly tendered at or prior to the Expiration Date and accepted for purchase, subject to all conditions to the Tender Offer having been either satisfied or waived by the Offeror, promptly following the Expiration Date (the date of such acceptance and purchase, the "Final Settlement Date"). The Final Settlement Date is expected to occur on the second business day following the Expiration Date, assuming the conditions to the Tender Offer and the Solicitation have been either satisfied or waived by the Offeror at or prior to the Expiration Date and all of the outstanding Notes are not purchased on the Early Settlement Date.

The Tender Offer is subject to, and conditioned upon, the satisfaction or waiver of certain conditions described in the Offer to Purchase, including the completion of the Company’s previously announced private offering of $1.6 billion aggregate principal amount senior secured notes, on terms acceptable to the Company.

The deadline for holders to validly withdraw tenders of Notes has passed. Accordingly, Notes that were already tendered at the Early Tender Date and any additional Notes that are tendered at or prior to the Expiration Date may not be withdrawn, except in certain limited circumstances where additional withdrawal rights are required by law.

If, following the consummation of the Tender Offer, any Notes remain outstanding, the Offeror intends to redeem such Notes in accordance with terms of the Notes and the indenture, dated as of March 21, 2017 (as amended or supplemented), among Bausch Health, the subsidiaries signatory thereto, The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee, and the notes collateral agents party thereto under which the Notes were issued.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC is acting as the dealer manager in the Tender Offer. Global Bondholder Services Corporation has been retained to serve as both the depositary and the information agent for the Tender Offer. Persons with questions regarding the Tender Offer should contact Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC at (collect) (212) 902-5962 or (toll free) (800) 828-3182. Requests for copies of the Offer to Purchase and other related materials should be directed to Global Bondholder Services Corporation at (toll-free) (866) 470-3800 or (collect) (212) 430-3774.

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On June 7, 2021 Cilag GmbH International, one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, reported its decision not to continue the collaboration and license agreement with argenx for cusatuzumab, an investigational therapeutic antibody that targets CD70 (Press release, Johnson & Johnson, JUN 7, 2021, View Source [SID1234583649]).

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The decision is based upon Janssen’s review of all available cusatuzumab data and in consideration of the evolving standard of care for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Final results from Janssen’s clinical studies of cusatuzumab will be presented in the future.

Janssen will work with argenx to transition the cusatuzumab program back to argenx. Patients currently enrolled in ongoing cusatuzumab clinical trials will continue to be supported through treatment and follow-up.

Janssen entered into the worldwide collaboration and license agreement with argenx in December 2018 to develop and commercialize cusatuzumab in AML and potential additional indications.

On June 7, 2021 Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA), a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines and Medison Pharma, a leading commercial partner for highly innovative therapies in international markets, reported a new agreement to commercialize the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine across Central Eastern Europe and Israel (Press release, Moderna Therapeutics, JUN 7, 2021, View Source [SID1234583665]).

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The agreement covers the following countries: Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Slovakia, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Serbia, Ukraine, Moldova, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Israel.

"We are excited to partner with Moderna in 20 markets, covering over 175 million lives across the entire Central Eastern Europe region and in Israel," said Meir Jakobsohn, Founder and CEO of Medison Pharma. "Moderna’s breakthrough mRNA vaccine and Medison’s international commercialization platform for highly innovative treatments, makes our partnership a natural fit."

"We appreciate this new partnership with Medison Pharma to ensure successful delivery of our mRNA COVID-19 vaccine to market," said Corinne Le Goff, Pharm.D., M.B.A., Chief Commercial Officer of Moderna. "Working together with our partners, we remain steadfast in our commitment to fighting the pandemic by delivering our vaccine to populations globally."

On June 7, 2021 Therapeutic Solutions International, Inc., (OTC Markets: TSOI), reported potent synergy between its tumor blood vessel targeting StemVacs-V iPSC immunotherapy and several classical tumor specific therapeutic vaccines (Press release, Therapeutics Solutions International, JUN 7, 2021, View Source [SID1234583681]).

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In a series of experiments tumor growth administration of dead tumor cells together with StemVacs-V resulted in potent immunological memory to the tumor cells, which could be transferred to immunologically naïve mice. Additionally, the experiments demonstrated killing tumor cells using conventional approaches such as chemotherapy, when performed together with StemVacs-V iPSC, led to the development of immunological memory towards the specific cancer.

"By targeting the blood vessels that feed the cancer, StemVacs-V iPSC causes enhanced necrotic cell death, which stimulates systemic immunity against the cancer throughout the whole body," said Dr. James Veltmeyer, Chief Medical Officer of the Company. "We are extremely enthusiastic by the current data showing that our blood vessel targeting approach can be used to synergize with both cancer immunotherapies and non-immune therapies of cancer such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy."

Despite cancer immunotherapy being an over 100 billion dollar a year market in 2020, most cancers still do not respond to this approach. These are called "cold tumors." It is believed that by starving the cancer of its blood supply, StemVacs-V iPSC may convert cold tumors to immunotherapy sensitive "hot tumors."

"The potential implications of the current data, which is covered by our previously filed patents, include synergies with oncolytic viruses, checkpoint inhibitors, fractionated radiation therapy, antibodies, and chemotherapies," said Famela Ramos, Vice President of Business Development for Therapeutic Solutions International. "We are currently exploring numerous co-development partnerships."

"This new finding is extremely exciting because it opens the door to synergies with other immunotherapies such as CAR-T therapies, which although successful in liquid tumors, to date have not yielded promising results in solid and/or cold tumors," said Timothy Dixon, President and CEO of the Company. "Having SAB members such as Santosh Kesari and Francesco Marincola, who are at the forefront of cancer immunotherapy, significantly positions us to accelerate the development of our new approach which targets the "Achille’s Heel of cancer."