Articles from Affimed N.V.

MANNHEIM, Germany, March 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced today that its Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Shawn Leland, PharmD, RPh, will participate in a fireside chat at the Leerink Partners Global Healthcare Conference 2025 on Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 2:20 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

MANNHEIM, Germany, Dec. 17, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed,” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced updated clinical data from the ongoing AFM24-102 trial of AFM24/atezolizumab combination therapy in heavily pretreated NSCLC patients. Results continue to demonstrate meaningful clinical activity in both NSCLC EGFRwt and EGFRmut patients with good tolerability. In addition, the Company reported findings from a post-hoc exposure-response analysis in patients treated with 480 mg AFM24 showing higher AFM24 exposure is associated with significantly better response rates, improved PFS and overall survival (OS). Based on these data, the future development program for AFM24 will use a dose of 720 mg weekly, a dose that has already been successfully tested in the phase 1 study of AFM24 showing a manageable safety profile.

MANNHEIM, Germany, Dec. 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced the oral presentation of data on AFM28 at the 66th ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition. The data, derived from the first-in-human Phase 1 study of AFM28, showed promising results in R/R AML, with signs of clinical efficacy and a well-managed safety profile at doses up to 300 mg weekly.

MANNHEIM, Germany, Dec. 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced today that it will host a conference call on Tuesday, December 17, at 8:30 a.m. EST / 14:30 CET to review clinical data from AFM24-102, the combination trial of its AFM24 innate cell engager ICE® with atezolizumab in non-small cell lung cancer.

MANNHEIM, Germany, Dec. 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced the presentation of data in a poster session at the 66th ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition. The dataset includes 22 patients from the run-in phase of the LuminICE-203 (AFM13-203) phase 2 open-label, multicenter, multi-cohort study. The trial evaluates the safety and efficacy of the combination of acimtamig (AFM13) with Artiva Biotherapeutics’ allogeneic NK cell AlloNK® in patients with R/R cHL.

Designation was based on early efficacy data demonstrating an 83.3% (10/12) overall response rate and a 50% (6/12) complete response rate, with a well-managed safety profile in Relapsed/Refractory Hodgkin Lymphoma patients

MANNHEIM, Germany, Nov. 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today reported financial results and provided an update on clinical and corporate progress for the quarter ended September 30, 2024.

MANNHEIM, Germany, Nov. 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced today that it will release third quarter 2024 results and corporate update on Thursday, November 14, 2024. The Company will host a conference call at 8:30 a.m. EST / 14:30 CET.

MANNHEIM, Germany, Nov. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced three abstracts on two of its innate cell engagers (ICE®) are accepted for presentation at the 66th ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition taking place December 7-10, 2024, in San Diego, California. An oral presentation will feature clinical results including promising efficacy and safety data from the AFM28 phase 1 dose escalation study in relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML). A poster with preclinical data will highlight the in vitro efficacy of AFM28 in combination with both patient-derived autologous NK cells and healthy volunteer-derived allogeneic NK cells against leukemic blasts.

MANNHEIM, Germany, Sept. 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced today that its Chief Executive Officer, Shawn M. Leland, PharmD, RPh, will participate in a fireside chat at the Cantor Global Healthcare Conference 2024 on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time / 14:00 Central European Time.

MANNHEIM, Germany, Sept. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today reported financial results and provided an update on clinical and corporate progress for the quarter ended June 30, 2024.

MANNHEIM, Germany, Sept. 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced today that Shawn M. Leland, PharmD, RPh has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Dr. Andreas Harstrick, who has been serving as acting CEO since January 2024 will continue in his position as Chief Medical Officer (CMO).

MANNHEIM, Germany, Aug. 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced today that it will release second quarter 2024 results and corporate update on Thursday, September 5, 2024. The Company will host a conference call at 8:30 a.m. EDT / 14:30 CET.

- Initial data from the LuminICE-203 study shows 85.7% overall response rate (ORR) (6 of 7 patients); 4 out of 7 patients with complete response (CR) -

MANNHEIM, Germany, June 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced today that it will release first quarter 2024 results and corporate update on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. The Company will host a conference call at 8:30 a.m. EDT / 14:30 CET.

MANNHEIM, Germany, June 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced longer follow-up data from the EGFRwt cohort and initial clinical efficacy data from the EGFRmut cohort from the on-going AFM24-102 study in NSCLC.

MANNHEIM, Germany, May 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced that the FDA has granted Fast Track designation to the combination of its innate cell engager (ICE®) AFM24 with atezolizumab for the treatment of patients with advanced and/or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) not harboring any activating EGFR mutations (EGFR wild-type) after progression on PD-(L)1 targeted therapy and platinum-based chemotherapy. Data from the AFM24-102 study in this patient population will be presented at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology on June 1, 2024.

MANNHEIM, Germany, May 28, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced today that its 2024 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (the “Annual Meeting”) will be held on June 26, 2024 at 09:00 a.m. CET at the offices of De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek N.V., Burgerweeshuispad 201, 1076 GR Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

MANNHEIM, Germany, May 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced that an update from the Company’s AFM24-102 study in advanced EGFR wild-type (EGFRwt) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) to be held in Chicago on May 31 – June 4, 2024. Patients in the study are treated with the combination of AFM24, Affimed’s innate cell engager (ICE®), and atezolizumab, Roche’s checkpoint inhibitor (CPI).

MANNHEIM, Germany, May 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced the publication of an abstract for the annual congress of the European Hematology Association (EHA), taking place in Madrid, Spain, June 13 – 16, 2024. The abstract presents preclinical data of Affimed’s CD16A/CD123-targeting ICE®, AFM28, in an acute myeloid leukemia (AML) mouse xenograft model and shows that increasing doses of AFM28 lead to a dose-dependent tumor growth control, resulting in an increased median life span of the treated mice compared to controls.

MANNHEIM, Germany, April 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced that an abstract presenting preliminary data from the phase 2 combination study of AFM24, its innate cell engager (ICE®), in combination with atezolizumab, Roche’s checkpoint inhibitor, in patients with EGFR-wildtype (EGFRwt) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has been accepted for poster presentation at 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.

MANNHEIM, Germany, March 28, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today reported financial results and provided an update on clinical and corporate progress for the year ended December 31, 2023.

MANNHEIM, Germany, March 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced today that it will release full year 2023 results and corporate update on March 28, 2024. The Company will host a conference call at 8:30 a.m. EDT / 13:30 CET.

MANNHEIM, Germany, March 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced that the Company, with prior approval of the Company’s supervisory board and management board, intends to effect a 1-for-10 reverse stock split of its outstanding common shares, par value €0.01 (“Common Shares”) per share.

MANNHEIM, Germany, Jan. 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today provided an update on the clinical response data for the ongoing AFM24-102 phase 1/2a study in EGFRwt NSCLC.

MANNHEIM, Germany, Jan. 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (the "Company" or "Affimed"), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced that Dr. Adi Hoess, Chief Executive Officer and member of the Management Board, will step down effective January 15, 2024. Dr. Hoess joined Affimed in October 2010 and has served as its Chief Executive Officer since September 2011.

MANNHEIM, Germany, Jan. 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to sell its wholly-owned subsidiary, AbCheck s.r.o., to Ampersand Biomedicines.

MANNHEIM, Germany, Dec. 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced interim safety and efficacy data on its innate cell engager (ICE®) AFM24 from the ongoing AFM24-102 combination study with atezolizumab, an anti-PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitor, in patients with advanced EGFR-expressing solid tumors. The data update as of December 6th, 2023, includes 15 patients from the EGFR-wildtype NSCLC cohort with a median of 2 prior lines of therapy. Importantly, all patients were pretreated with and ultimately progressed while on PD-[L]1 targeting therapy.

MANNHEIM, Germany, Dec. 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced updated data on its lead innate cell engager (ICE®) acimtamig. Data from the investigator-initiated trial is being presented today at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) 2023 Annual Meeting by Yago Nieto, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and principal investigator of the study. Affimed will host a webcast following the presentation to review the data and provide a strategic update on acimtamig’s future development.

MANNHEIM, Germany, Dec. 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced today that it will host a conference call on December 11 at 1:30 p.m. PST / 4:30 p.m. EST to review clinical data presented from the combination trial of acimtamig with cord-blood derived NK cells during the 65th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA. During the call, the Company will also provide a clinical data update from the AFM24-102 trial.

MANNHEIM, Germany, Nov. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today reported financial results and provided an update on clinical and corporate progress for the third quarter of 2023.

MANNHEIM, Germany, Nov. 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced that the International Nonproprietary Names (INN) Expert Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) has selected "acimtamig" for the nonproprietary name of the Company’s investigational drug for CD30-positive Lymphomas, previously known as AFM13. Following the WHO nomenclature scheme, the name recognizes the drug as a tumor targeting bispecific antibody.

MANNHEIM, Germany, Nov. 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced today that it will release third quarter 2023 results and corporate update on Tuesday, November 14, 2023. The Company will host a conference call at 8:30 a.m. EST / 14:30 CET.

MANNHEIM, Germany, Nov. 03, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today presented a poster at the annual meeting of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC), indicating the Company’s ICE® improves cytotoxicity of NK and CAR-NK cells and that NK cells redirected by ICE® exhibit at least the same efficacy against tumor cells as CAR-NK cells alone or redirected by the ICE®. The results emerged from a collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology (IZI) in Leipzig, Germany.

MANNHEIM, Germany, Nov. 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced two upcoming presentations on its lead innate cell engager (ICE®) AFM13 at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) 2023 Annual Meeting.

MANNHEIM, Germany, Nov. 01, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced that the Company’s management will participate in the following investor conferences during the month of November 2023.

MANNHEIM, Germany, Oct. 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced today that it has received approval from the Listing Qualifications Department of the Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) to transfer the listing of its shares from the Nasdaq Global Market to the Nasdaq Capital Market. This transfer is effective as of the opening of business on October 4, 2023.

MANNHEIM, Germany, Sept. 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced that an abstract with a comparison of NK cell redirected by the Company’s innate cell engagers (ICE®) versus CAR-NK cells has been accepted for poster presentation at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC), which will be held on November 1-5, 2023 in San Diego, California.

MANNHEIM, Germany, Sept. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced today that its Chief Financial Officer, Angus Smith, will participate in a fireside chat at the Cantor Global Healthcare Conference 2023 on Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 1:15 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time / 19:15 Central European Time.

MANNHEIM, Germany, Sept. 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced that the FDA has granted fast track designation to the combination of its innate cell engager (ICE®) AFM13 with AlloNK® for the potential treatment of relapsed/refractory (r/r) Hodgkin lymphoma (HL). The combination treatment is entering Phase 2 development and will be investigated in Affimed’s LuminICE-203 study (NCT05883449), which received IND-clearance earlier this year; the study also includes an exploratory cohort of CD30-positive peripheral T-cell lymphoma patients.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, Sept. 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced today that its Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Adi Hoess, will present at the H.C. Wainwright 25th Annual Global Investment Conference on Tuesday, September 12, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time / 17:00 Central European Time.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, Aug. 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced the publication of a manuscript that demonstrates how the FcRn-pH-HPLC technology can be leveraged to predict PK properties of various ICE® formats built on the ROCK® platform.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, Aug. 10, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today reported financial results and provided an update on clinical and corporate progress for the second quarter of 2023.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, Aug. 03, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced today that it will release second quarter 2023 results and corporate update on Thursday, August 10, 2023. The Company will host a conference call at 8:30 a.m. EDT / 14:30 CET.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, July 31, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced that an abstract with clinical trial results of its innate cell engager (ICE®) AFM24 in combination with NKGen Biotech’s SNK01 (autologous non-genetically modified NK cells), has been accepted for a poster presentation at the ASCO Breakthrough conference from 3-5 August 2023 in Yokohama, Japan. The presentation includes dose escalation phase data on safety and efficacy of the phase 1 study in patients with advanced or metastatic EGFR-expressing solid tumors (NCT05099549).

HEIDELBERG, Germany, June 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced the appointment of Dr. Constanze Ulmer-Eilfort to its Supervisory Board. Dr. Ulmer-Eilfort’s appointment was approved during the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders which took place on June 21, 2023.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, June 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced that two abstracts have been accepted for presentation at the 17th International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma (17-ICML) taking place in Lugano, Switzerland on June 13-17, 2023. A poster presentation will share a preclinical data set of Affimed’s innate cell engager (ICE®) AFM13 in combination with Artiva Biotherapeutics Inc.’s (“Artiva”) off-the-shelf NK cell AB-101. An additional encore oral presentation will show the final results of the phase 2 REDIRECT study with AFM13 monotherapy in a r/r PTCL patient population.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, June 03, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced the presentation at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting of safety and efficacy data from the EGFR mutant NSCLC expansion cohort of its ongoing phase 1/2 study investigating innate cell engager (ICE®) AFM24 as monotherapy. The data included 15 evaluable patients and showed encouraging early signs of clinical activity including confirmed partial responses and durable stable disease. EGFR mutant NSCLC is a very aggressive and resistant tumor type in which most classical NSCLC treatments achieve limited to no clinical activity, especially in more advanced patients. Affimed’s innate cell engager AFM24 aims to reactivate the innate and consequently the adaptive immune system to recognize and destroy EGFR mutant tumors.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, May 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced today that its Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Adi Hoess, will present at the 2023 Jefferies Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, June 7, 2023 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time / 14:30 Central European Time.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, May 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed,” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced the publication of two abstracts with its innate cell engager (ICE®) AFM24 in advance of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, taking place on June 2 - 6, 2023 in Chicago, IL.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, May 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today reported financial results and provided an update on clinical and corporate progress for the first quarter of 2023.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, May 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared its IND application for the combination of AFM13, its first-in-class tetravalent bispecific innate cell engager (ICE®) and AB-101, Artiva Biotherapeutics Inc.’s (“Artiva”) clinical-stage, cryopreserved, off-the shelf, non-genetically modified, allogeneic cord blood-derived natural killer (NK) cells to initiate the clinical trial, AFM13-203 (LuminICE-203). The phase 2 study will be an open-label, multi-center, multi-cohort study with a safety run-in followed by dose optimization and expansion phases. The study will evaluate the safety and efficacy of AFM13 in combination with AB-101 in patients with r/r cHL and CD30-positive PTCL. Affimed intends to initiate the study in the third quarter of 2023 and expects to report data from the safety run-in phase in the first half of 2024.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, May 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced today that its 2023 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (the “Annual Meeting”) will be held on June 21, 2023 at 14:00 CET at the NH Collection Amsterdam Barbizon Palace, Prins Hendrikkade 59-72, 1012 AD Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, May 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced today that it will release first quarter 2023 results and corporate update on Tuesday, May 23, 2023. The Company will host a conference call at 8:30 a.m. EDT / 14:30 CET.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, May 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced that two abstracts have been accepted to EHA2023, the annual meeting of the European Hematology Association (EHA) taking place in Frankfurt, Germany on June 8-11, 2023.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, April 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced that two abstracts with its innate cell engager (ICE®) AFM24 have been accepted for the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, taking place June 2 - 6, 2023 in Chicago, IL.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, April 17, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today presented a poster developed in collaboration with Prof. Björn Önfelt from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. The preclinical data demonstrate the ability of AFM13, Affimed’s CD16A/CD30-targeting innate cell engager (ICE®), to induce serial killing of tumor cells, while preserving CD16A shedding.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, April 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today provided the final results from its phase 2 REDIRECT study investigating its innate cell engager (ICE®) AFM13 monotherapy in patients with heavily pretreated advanced-stage r/r PTCL. The results are being presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting by Dr. Won Seog Kim, Professor of Hematology-Oncology at Samsung Medical Center in Seoul and a principal investigator for the study, and establishes that AFM13 monotherapy showed efficacy in the treatment of relapsed/refractory peripheral T cell lymphoma (r/r PTCL) patients with a differentiated safety profile.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, April 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced today that it has received a written notice (the “Notice”), dated April 4, 2023, from the Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) indicating that, for the last thirty consecutive business days, the bid price for the Company’s common shares had closed below the minimum $1.00 per share requirement for continued listing on the Nasdaq under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) (the “Minimum Bid Price Rule”).

HEIDELBERG, Germany, March 29, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced today that the first patient was dosed in a phase 1 multicenter, open label, first-in-human dose escalation study of the innate cell engager (ICE®) AFM28 monotherapy in patients with CD123-positive relapsed/refractory (r/r) acute myeloid leukemia (AML). AFM28 efficiently directs natural killer (NK) cells to CD123-positive leukemic cells, including blasts and leukemic stem and progenitor cells, inducing their depletion in samples of patients with AML and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS).

HEIDELBERG, Germany, March 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today reported financial results for the year ended December 31, 2022, and provided an update on clinical and corporate progress.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, March 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced today that it will release full year 2022 results and corporate update on Thursday, March 23, 2023. The Company will host a conference call at 8:30 a.m. EDT / 13:30 CET.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, March 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced that two abstracts with clinical and preclinical data on AFM13, its anti-CD30 targeting innate cell engager (ICE®), have been accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), taking place April 14-19, 2022 in Orlando, Florida.

PLZEN, Czech Republic, March 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AbCheck s.r.o., a technology company delivering disruptive antibody discovery and development solutions for challenging targets, announced today that it has successfully completed the technology development activities specified under the terms of its research grant entitled “Research and development of a unique biotechnology for the isolation of antibodies with a therapeutic effect”. Under the grant, awarded to AbCheck by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic in 2019, the Company has received a total of more than €1 million.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, Feb. 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced today its Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Adi Hoess, will participate in a fireside chat at the H.C. Wainwright Cell Therapy Conference on Tuesday, February 28, 2023, at 8:30 a.m. EST / 14:30 CET.

PLZEN, Czech Republic, Feb. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AbCheck s.r.o., a technology company delivering disruptive antibody discovery and development solutions for challenging targets, announced today that it has entered into a collaboration with a biotech company developing antibodies targeting peripheral neural response, funded by a top-tier European Venture Capital firm.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, Feb. 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced today its Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Adi Hoess, will present at the SVB Securities 2023 Global Biopharma Conference on Tuesday, February 14, 2023 at 2:20 p.m. EST / 20:20 CET.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, Jan. 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a written response to the Company’s pre-IND meeting request for the AFM13 and Artiva Biotherapeutics, Inc. (“Artiva”)’s AB-101 co-administered combination therapy in relapsed/refractory (r/r) Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) and the exploratory arm evaluating the combination in r/r CD30-positive peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL). Based on the written response, Affimed remains on track to submit an IND in the first half of 2023 and, subject to FDA clearance of the IND, to initiate a clinical study during 2023.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, Dec. 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced today that the ANSM has authorized a CTA for the phase 1 study of AFM28 (AFM28-101) in relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML).

HEIDELBERG, Germany, Dec. 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today presented a poster highlighting new preclinical data for its Innate Cell Engager (ICE®) AFM28 targeting CD123 and CD16A at the 64th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, Dec. 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced topline data from its phase 2 REDIRECT study investigating AFM13 monotherapy in patients with advanced-stage r/r PTCL.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, Dec. 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today provided a data update from the ongoing phase 1/2 study of the Company’s lead innate cell engager (ICE®) AFM13 precomplexed with cord blood-derived natural killer (cbNK) cells in patients with CD30-positive relapsed or refractory Hodgkin and Non-Hodgkin lymphomas. The results are being presented today at the 64th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting by principal investigator Yago Nieto, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Results from the study continue to demonstrate high objective and complete response rates with a well-tolerated safety profile.

HEIDELBERG, Germany,, Dec. 01, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, announced today that it will host an Investor Event on December 10 during the 64th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, Nov. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022 and provided an update on clinical and corporate progress.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, Nov. 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Affimed N.V. (Nasdaq: AFMD) (“Affimed” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company committed to giving patients back their innate ability to fight cancer, today announced data updates from two phase 1/2a trials with AFM24, the company’s tetravalent, bispecific innate cell engager (ICE®), in patients with solid tumors. AFM24 binds both EGFR on tumor cells and CD16A on natural killer (NK) cells and macrophages, thereby facilitating the killing of EGFR-positive tumor cells. Abstracts for the upcoming data presentations at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) were published today. The full updated clinical data sets will be presented in two poster presentations on November 10 and November 11, 2022 and will be made available through the following link on Affimed’s website: Publications and Posters - Affimed