Cellectis Announces Two Oral Presentations and One Poster at the 2016 ASH Annual Meeting

Regulatory News:

Cellectis (Paris:ALCLS) (NASDAQ:CLLS) (Alternext: ALCLS; Nasdaq: CLLS), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing immunotherapies based on gene edited CAR T-cells (UCART), today announced that abstracts regarding the Company's allogeneic, off-the-shelf, CAR T programs have been accepted for presentation at the 58th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition. The meeting will be held December 3-6, 2016 in San Diego.

Oral presentations:

• 765 Allogeneic Tcra/ß Deficient CAR T-Cells Targeting CD123 Prolong Overall Survival of AML Patient-Derived Xenografts

  https://ash.confex.com/ash/2016/webprogram/Paper97033.html

Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Novel Therapy, excluding Transplantation
Program: Oral and Poster Abstracts
Type: Oral
Session: 616. Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Novel Therapy, excluding Transplantation: Emerging Immune-Based Therapies for AML
Monday, December 5, 2016: 11:00 AM
San Diego Ballroom AB (Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina)

Monica L. Guzman, PhD¹, Mayumi Sugita, MD^1*, Hongliang Zong, MD, PhD^1*, Nathan Ewing-Crystal^1*, Vicenta Trujillo-Alonso^1*, Nuria Mencia-Trinchant, PhD^1*, Linda Lam^1*, Nicole M. Cruz, MD¹, Roman Galetto, PhD^2*, Agnès Gouble, PhD^2*, Duane C Hassane, PhD¹, Julianne Smith, PhD² and Gail J. Roboz^3
1Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
²Cellectis SA, Paris, France
³Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY

• 381 Preclinical Evaluation of Allogeneic Anti-Bcma Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells with Safety Switch Domains and Lymphodepletion Resistance for the Treatment of Multiple Myeloma

  https://ash.confex.com/ash/2016/webprogram/Paper90155.html

Myeloma: Pathophysiology and Pre-Clinical Studies, excluding Therapy
Program: Oral and Poster Abstracts
Type: Oral
Session: 652. Myeloma: Pathophysiology and Pre-Clinical Studies, excluding Therapy: Novel Immune Approaches for Myeloma Therapy
Sunday, December 4, 2016: 12:30 PM
Grand Hall B (Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego)

Bijan Boldajipour, PhD^1*, Roman Galetto, PhD^2*, Cesar Sommer, PhD^1*, Thomas Pertel, PhD^1*, Julien Valton, PhD^3*, Yoon Park, PhD^1*, Annabelle Gariboldi^2*, Amy Chen^1*, Tao Geng^1*, Hong H Dong^1*, Gregory R Boucher^1*, Thomas J Van Blarcom, PhD^1*, Javier Chaparro-Riggers, PhD^1*, Arvind Rajpal, PhD^1*, Julianne Smith, PhD³, Tracy Kuo, PhD^1* and Barbra Sasu, PhD^1
1Pfizer Inc., South San Francisco, CA
²Cellectis SA, Paris, France
³Cellectis Inc., New York, NY

Poster presentation:

• 4039 Pre-Clinical Studies of Anti-CD123 CAR-T Cells for the Treatment of Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm (BPDCN)

  https://ash.confex.com/ash/2016/webprogram/Paper95092.html

Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Novel Therapy, excluding Transplantation
Program: Oral and Poster Abstracts
Session: 616. Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Novel Therapy, excluding Transplantation: Poster III
Monday, December 5, 2016, 6:00 PM-8:00 PM
Hall GH (San Diego Convention Center)

Tianyu Cai, PhD^1*, Roman Galetto, PhD^2*, Agnès Gouble, PhD^2*, Julianne Smith, PhD², Antonio Cavazos, MS^1*, Sergej Konoplev, MD, PhD³, Andrew A. Lane, MD, PhD⁴, Monica L. Guzman, PhD⁵, Hagop M. Kantarjian, MD¹, Naveen Pemmaraju, MD¹ and Marina Konopleva, MD, PhD^1
1Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
²Cellectis SA, Paris, France
³Department of Hematopathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
⁴Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
⁵Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY

About Cellectis

Cellectis is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing immunotherapies based on gene edited CAR T-cells (UCART). The company’s mission is to develop a new generation of cancer therapies based on engineered T-cells. Cellectis capitalizes on its 16 years of expertise in genome engineering - based on its flagship TALEN® products and meganucleases and pioneering electroporation PulseAgile technology - to create a new generation of immunotherapies. CAR technologies are designed to target surface antigens expressed on cells. Using its life-science-focused, pioneering genome-engineering technologies, Cellectis’ goal is to create innovative products in multiple fields and with various target markets.

In June 2014, Cellectis and Pfizer began collaborating on a joint clinical development program for CAR-T therapies, in the field of oncology, directed at numerous targets selected by Pfizer.

Cellectis is listed on the Nasdaq market (ticker: CLLS) and on the NYSE Alternext market (ticker: ALCLS). To find out more about us, visit our website: www.cellectis.com

Talking about gene editing? We do it. TALEN® is a registered trademark owned by the Cellectis Group.

Disclaimer

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