Immunomedics (IMMU) Awarded 2 Small Business Grants from NIH

October 19, 2009 8:49 AM EDT

Immunomedics, Inc. (Nasdaq: IMMU) has been awarded 3 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), totaling $2.1 million payable over a period of 2 years. One of the awards can be extended to 3 years with a potential $2.5 million additional funding, if certain goals and milestones are met.

The first award is a Phase I grant for the development of a hematopoietic tumor-targeting humanized antibody conjugated site-specifically with 4 interferon-a2b groups.

The NIH has also awarded the Company a multiyear Phase II grant for the development of F-18 labeled peptides for pretargeted positron-emission tomography, or PET, imaging of pancreatic cancer.

Another multiyear Phase II grant was awarded to support a clinical trial of combined radio- and immunotherapy of aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL).


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