TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Compugen Ltd. (NASDAQ: CGEN) disclosed today the initiation of its second focused discovery program, aimed at identification of novel targets for antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) cancer therapy focusing on clinical situations with poor survival rates and/or recurrent cancers. This second program follows Compugen’s successful initial focused discovery program for novel immune checkpoint proteins, a number of which have been incorporated in the Company’s Pipeline Program as Fc fusion protein drugs for immunology and/or as therapeutic targets for monoclonal antibody (mAb) drugs for cancer immunotherapy.