MONROVIA, Calif., March 2, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Xencor, Inc. (NASDAQ: XNCR), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing engineered monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of autoimmune diseases, asthma and allergic diseases, and cancer, today announced that Bassil Dahiyat, president and chief executive officer, will present at the Cowen and Company 36th Annual Health Care Conference on Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 8:40 a.m. ET in Boston, MA.
A live webcast of the presentation will be available on the “Events & Presentations” section in the Investors section of the Company’s website located at http://investors.xencor.com/events.cfm. A replay of the presentation will be posted on the Xencor website approximately one hour after the live event and will be available for 30 days following the presentation.
About Xencor, Inc.
Xencor is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing engineered monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of asthma and allergic diseases, autoimmune diseases and cancer. Currently, nine candidates that have been engineered with Xencor’s XmAb® technology are in clinical development internally and with partners. Xencor’s internally-discovered programs include: XmAb5871, which completed a Phase 1b/2a clinical trial for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and is in preparation for a clinical trial in IgG4-related disease in 2016; XmAb7195 in Phase 1a development for the treatment of asthma; and XmAb5574/MOR208 which has been licensed to Morphosys AG and is in Phase 2 clinical trials for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Xencor’s XmAb antibody engineering technology enables small changes to the structure of monoclonal antibodies resulting in new mechanisms of therapeutic action. Xencor partners include Amgen, Merck, Janssen R&D LLC, Alexion, Novo Nordisk and Boehringer Ingelheim. For more information, please visit www.xencor.com.
Investor Contact:
John Kuch, Vice President Finance, Xencor
Tel: 626-737-8013
jkuch@xencor.com
Corporate Communications Contact:
Jason I. Spark, Canale Communications for Xencor
Tel: 619-849-6005
jason@canalecomm.com
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