Cue Biopharma, Inc. Announces Appointment of Tamar Howson to Board of Directors
September 17, 2020 at 08:00 am EDT
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Cue Biopharma, Inc. announced the appointment of Tamar Howson to its board of directors. Ms. Howson brings broad corporate and business development experience to the board, having held executive leadership positions in several global biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical companies, as well as her many board appointments.
Cue Biopharma, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a novel class of therapeutic biologics to selectively modulate disease-specific T cells. The Company's platform, Immuno-STAT (Selective Targeting and Alteration of T cells) and biologics are designed to harness the curative potential of the body's intrinsic immune system through the selective modulation of disease-specific T cells without the adverse effects of broad systemic immune modulation. Its two oncology drug product candidates, CUE-101 and CUE-102, are exemplary programs from the interleukin 2 (IL-2) based CUE-100 series, and are representative of the HLA-A02 allele, which is prevalent in the United States and western European territories. CUE-101 HLA-A02 is engineered for the treatment of human papillomavirus positive, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). CUE-102 HLA-A02, targeting Wilms' Tumor 1 protein, an oncofetal antigen known to be over-expressed in more than 20 different cancers.