BURLINGTON, Mass., Feb. 14, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coronado Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq:CNDO - News), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel immunotherapy agents for the treatment of autoimmune diseases and cancer, today announced that it has submitted an Investigational New Drug (IND) application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for CNDO-109, a novel biologic that primes natural killer (NK) cells without the need for cytokines (IL-2), and is being studied for the treatment of patients with high risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in first complete remission.
