Candel Therapeutics, Inc.'s CAN-3110 Receives FDA Fast Track Designation for Treatment of Recurrent High-Grade Glioma

Candel Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The Company is focused on developing off-the-shelf multimodal biological immunotherapies that elicit an individualized, systemic anti-tumor immune response to help patients fight cancer. The Company has established two clinical-stage multimodal biological immunotherapy platforms based on novel, genetically modified adenovirus and herpes simplex virus (HSV) gene constructs, respectively. CAN-2409 is the lead product candidate from the adenovirus platform and is in ongoing clinical trials in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), borderline resectable pancreatic cancer, and localized, non-metastatic prostate cancer. CAN-3110 is the lead product candidate from the HSV platform and is in an ongoing investigator-sponsored phase I clinical trial in recurrent high-grade glioma (HGG). Its enLIGHTEN Discovery Platform leverages human biology and advanced analytics to create new viral immunotherapies for solid tumors.