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SANTA ANA, Calif., July 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NKGen Biotech, Inc. (OTC: NKGN) (“NKGen” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative autologous and allogeneic natural killer (“NK”) cell therapeutics, today announced the administration of the first dose of troculeucel, an expanded autologous NK cell therapy, under a single compassionate use, Investigational New Drug (“IND”) authorization cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), to a patient with mild-stage Alzheimer’s disease who exhibited continued cognitive decline despite ongoing treatment with lecanemab, an amyloid targeting therapy. This exploratory work is being conducted in collaboration with Anita Fletcher, M.D., a board-certified neurologist with specialized training in neuroimmunology, who also serves as Director of Neuroscience Clinical Research at AdventHealth Neuroscience Institute in Orlando, Florida.

SAN DIEGO, July 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Crinetics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRNX) today announced that on July 10, 2025, the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors granted non-qualified stock option awards to purchase an aggregate of 102,350 shares of its common stock and granted an aggregate of 77,875 restricted stock unit (“RSU”) awards to 46 new non-executive employees, in each case, under the Crinetics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2021 Employment Inducement Incentive Award Plan (the “2021 Inducement Plan”). The stock options and RSUs were granted as inducements material to the employees entering into employment with Crinetics in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).

SAN CARLOS, Calif., July 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: IOVA), a commercial biotechnology company focused on innovating, developing, and delivering novel polyclonal tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapies for patients with cancer, today announced the appointment of Marc. R Theoret, M.D. to assume the newly created position of Senior Vice President, Regulatory Strategy, where he will focus on clinical regulatory strategy for Iovance’s pipeline. Effective immediately, Dr. Theoret will report to Dr. Raj K. Puri, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Regulatory Officer.

WALTHAM, Mass. and BOULDER, Colo., July 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cogent Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: COGT), a biotechnology company focused on developing precision therapies for genetically defined diseases, today announced the closing of its previously announced upsized underwritten public offering of 25,555,556 shares of its common stock, which includes 3,333,333 shares issued pursuant to the exercise in full by the underwriters of their option to purchase additional shares of common stock in the offering. The public offering price was $9.00 per share. The aggregate gross proceeds to Cogent from this offering were approximately $230 million, including proceeds from the exercise in full by the underwriters of the option to purchase additional shares, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses. All of the shares in the offering were sold by Cogent.

Singapore, July 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Delixy Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: DLXY) (the “Company” or “Delixy”), a Singapore-based company engaged in the trading of oil related products, today announced the closing of its initial public offering (the “Offering”) of 2,000,000 ordinary shares, par value US$0.000005 per share, (“Ordinary Shares”), 1,350,000 of which were offered by the Company and 650,000 by the selling shareholders Mega Origin Holdings Limited (as to 325,000 Ordinary Shares) and Novel Majestic Limited (as to 325,000 Ordinary Shares) (the “Selling Shareholders”), at a public offering price of US$4.00 per Ordinary Share, raising total gross proceeds of US$8 million in the aggregate to the Company and Selling Shareholders.

NEWTON, Mass., July 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Acumen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ABOS), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a novel therapeutic that targets soluble amyloid beta oligomers (AβOs) for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), will present new findings at the upcoming Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC®) 2025 in Toronto. The presentations include a cost savings analysis of the use of pTau217 as a screening tool in Acumen’s Phase 2 ALTITUDE-AD trial of sabirnetug as well as a nonclinical study evaluating the relative selectivity of sabirnetug to targeting AβOs versus Aβ monomers. The conference will be held July 27-31, 2025, both in-person and online.