Immutep Announces Abstracts Accepted for Presentation at

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, Oct. 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Immutep Limited (ASX: IMM; NASDAQ: IMMP) (“Immutep” or “the Company”), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel immunotherapies for cancer and autoimmune disease, will announce first interim data from the INSIGHT-003 clinical trial in a poster presentation at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Annual Meeting 2022, which is taking place in person in Boston, US and virtually from 8 to 12 November 2022. A Trial in Progress poster on the phase IIb TACTI-003 trial will also be presented.

The phase I INSIGHT-003 trial is the first trial evaluating Immutep’s lead product candidate, eftilagimod alpha (“efti” or “IMP321”) as part of a triple combination therapy consisting of efti and an approved standard of care combination of chemotherapy and an anti-PD-1 therapy. The trial is recruiting up to 20 patients with various solid tumours, focusing on NSCLC adenocarcinomas.

INSIGHT-003 Abstract
Title: Feasibility of eftilagimod alpha (soluble LAG-3 protein) combined with standard-of-care-therapy in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) adenocarcinomas. Initial results from INSIGHT 003
Poster display session: Friday, Nov 11, 2022; 9 am – 9 pm EST
Presenter: Dr. Akin Atmaca

TACTI-003 Trial in Progress Abstract
Title: TACTI-003: A randomized Phase IIb study of eftilagimod alpha (soluble LAG-3 protein) and pembrolizumab as first-line treatment of patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
Poster display session: Thursday, November 10, 2022; 9 am – 8:30 pm EST
Presenter: Dr. Irene Braña

Immutep also has a Late Breaking Abstract accepted at SITC 2022. Titles for Late Breaking Abstracts will become publicly available on 2 November 2022.

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