Compugen’s CGEN-15001 Demonstrates Restoration of Immune Tolerance in Autoimmunity
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HOLON, ISRAEL, January 4, 2017 –– Compugen Ltd. (NASDAQ: CGEN), a leading predictive drug discovery company, disclosed today new animal model results demonstrating restoration of immune tolerance by CGEN-15001, the Company’s lead candidate for treatment of autoimmune diseases. Importantly, the immune tolerance established by CGEN-15001 was shown to be antigen-specific, indicating that treatment with CGEN-15001 has the potential to not only generate a durable response, but also to avoid the global immune suppression generated by other therapeutic agents for autoimmune diseases. CGEN-15001 is an Fc fusion protein based on a Compugen-discovered novel immune checkpoint protein.
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