Fate Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:FATE) Files An 8-K Other Events
Item 8.01 Other Events
Fate Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”) intends to conduct meetings with investors, stockholders and analysts during the week of January 7, 2019. In connection with such meetings, the Company intends to provide a corporate update on its product candidates including FT516, a universal, off-the-shelf natural killer (NK) cell cancer immunotherapy that is derived from a clonal master induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) line engineered to uniformly express a high-affinity, non-cleavable CD16 Fc receptor. During the last thirty days, the Company submitted an Investigational New Drug (IND) application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate a first-in-human clinical trial of FT516.
About Fate Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:FATE)
Fate Therapeutics, Inc. (Fate Therapeutics) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The Company is engaged in development of programmed cellular immunotherapies for cancer and immune disorders. The Company’s cell therapy pipeline consists of immuno-oncology programs, including cancer immunotherapies derived from engineered induced pluripotent cells, and immuno-regulatory programs, including hematopoietic cell immunotherapies for protecting the immune system of patients undergoing hematopoietic cell transplantation and for suppressing autoimmunity. Its lead clinical program is ProTmune, which is a programmed immuno-regulatory cell therapy. The Company programs immune cells, such as CD34+ cells, Natural Killer (NK) cells and T cells, by utilizing its cell programming approach. Its adoptive cell therapy programs are based on the Company’s ex vivo cell programming approach, which it applies to modulate the therapeutic function and direct the fate of immune cells.