Aptevo Therapeutics Reports 2017 Financial Results and Provides Business Update

Aptevo Therapeutics (Nasdaq:APVO), a biotechnology company focused on developing novel oncology and hematology therapeutics, today reported its financial results for the year ended December 31, 2017 and provided an update on its commercial and pipeline programs.

As quoted in the press release:

“I am proud of the reputation we are building as a company that is execution-oriented with a compelling, differentiated technology platform – our ADAPTIR bispecific antibody platform,” said Marvin L. White, President and Chief Executive Officer.  “2017 was a year of solid execution for Aptevo as we delivered on several important objectives.  First, we made excellent progress advancing our ADAPTIR portfolio.  During the year we continued to progress our metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer candidate, APVO414, in a Phase 1 dose escalation study and announced preliminary data showing an impressive reduction in anti-drug antibody titers under a new dosing regimen.  Plans to commence a new Phase 2 study of our second clinical candidate, otlertuzumab, in peripheral T-cell lymphoma, were finalized and we began this clinical trial in January 2018.  We also made solid progress advancing APVO436 and APVO210, for which we announced plans to file Investigational New Drug (IND) applications in 2018.  Finally, we executed an important strategic partnership with Alligator Bioscience, which demonstrated the versatility of our ADAPTIR platform.  In collaboration with Alligator we developed a new immunotherapeutic antibody, ALG.APV-527 featuring a novel mechanism of action targeting 4-1BB and the tumor antigen, 5T4, which is found on various types of cancer cells, suggesting potential broad utility for this molecule.”

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