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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.

HUNTSVILLE, AL, July 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Serina Therapeutics, Inc. (“Serina”) (NYSE American: SER), a clinical-stage biotechnology company advancing its lead IND candidate SER-252 for advanced Parkinson's disease, enabled by its proprietary POZ Platform^™ drug optimization technology, announced that it has made a grant of options to purchase an aggregate of 12,500 shares of Serina’s common stock to a new non-executive employee on June 18, 2025 (the “Option Grant”).

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.