Micromet secures $120 million despite sagging economy

Publication
Article
Oncology NEWS InternationalOncology NEWS International Vol 18 No 9
Volume 18
Issue 9

Biopharmaceutical company Micromet closed $80.5 million in funding last month after a public offering of 14 million shares of common stock. Earlier in the year, the company raised $40 million.

Biopharmaceutical company Micromet closed $80.5 million in funding last month after a public offering of 14 million shares of common stock. Earlier in the year, the company raised $40 million.

The company’s main product is the BiTE antibody blinatumomab (MT103), which is currently in a phase II trial for the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).

Preliminary results from the phase II German Multicenter ALL Study Group (GMALL) were presented at the 2009 Congress of the European Hematology Association in Berlin. Eighty-one percent of the evaluated patients showed a minimal residual disease response, according to Micromet.

Related Videos
Administering neoadjuvant therapy to patients with colorectal cancer may help surgical oncologists attain a negative-margin resection.
Video 4 - "Frontline Treatment for EGFR-Mutated Lung Cancer"
Video 3 - "NGS Testing Challenges and Considerations in NSCLC"
Increasing screening for younger individuals who are at risk of colorectal cancer may help mitigate the rising early incidence of this disease.
Laparoscopy may reduce the degree of pain or length of hospital stay compared with open surgery for patients with colorectal cancer.
Related Content