LOS ANGELES, April 7, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lion Biotechnologies, Inc. (OTCBB:LBIO), a biotechnology company that is developing novel cancer immunotherapies based on tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs), today announced that Steven A. Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D., Chief of Surgery at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), has presented data showing impressive evidence of clinical efficacy from a Phase 2 melanoma clinical trial in a plenary session at the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. The new data confirmed that TIL treatment was associated with a high durable objective response rate in patients with Stage 4 metastatic melanoma, including many who were refractory to checkpoint inhibitors. Lion is working with Dr. Rosenberg under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to develop and commercialize this novel TIL therapy.
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