TEL AVIV, Israel & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Speaking today at the Rodman & Renshaw Annual Global Investment Conference in New York City, Martin Gerstel, chairman of Compugen Ltd. (NASDAQ: CGEN), reviewed the current status of the Company and announced the validation of two therapeutic product candidates, CGEN-15021 and CGEN-15091, in various autoimmune disease animal models. These two molecules are soluble proteins based on two B7/CD28-like proteins recently discovered by Compugen. In view of its key role in modulating immune response, the B7/CD28 family of proteins is of high interest in medical research and to the pharmaceutical industry, and these newly discovered molecules share key characteristics with this protein family. In addition to the potential use of CGEN-15021 and CGEN-15091 as protein therapeutics for multiple autoimmune diseases, the two proteins they are based on are predicted to have utility as drug targets for monoclonal antibody therapy in oncology.
