Affimed Presents Data on Potency of NK- and T-cell EGFRvIII TandAbs at SITC

HEIDELBERG, Germany, Nov. 6, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq:AFMD), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing highly targeted cancer immunotherapies, yesterday presented first data on the Company's proprietary NK- and T-cell TandAbs generated against the tumor-specific variant III of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFRvIII), at the annual Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) conference in National Harbor, Maryland. Results showed that the Company's TandAbs against EGFRvIII, AFM21 (T-cell-engager targeting EGFRvIII and CD3) and AFM22 (NK-cell-engager targeting EGFRvIII and CD16A) were similarly potent as measured in killing assays, displaying...