Articles from NextCure

BELTSVILLE, Md., April 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class and best-in-class therapies to treat cancer, today announced that it will present at the 24th Annual Needham Virtual Healthcare Conference on Thursday, April 10th, at 8:45 am ET.

BELTSVILLE, Md., March 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class, and best-in-class therapies to treat cancer, today provided a business update and reported full year 2024 financial results.

BELTSVILLE, Md., Jan. 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class, and best-in-class therapies to treat cancer, today announced the first patient has been dosed in its Phase 1 study of LNCB74, a B7-H4-targeting antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) as a therapeutic for treating multiple cancers.

LNCB74 is a B7-H4-targeting antibody-drug conjugate being developed for multiple cancers in partnership with LigaChem Biosciences

BELTSVILLE, Md., Nov. 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class and best-in-class therapies to treat cancer, today announced that it will participate in a fireside chat at the 36th Annual Piper Sandler Healthcare Conference in New York City on Thursday, December 5, at 12:00 pm ET.

BELTSVILLE, Md., Nov. 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class and best-in-class therapies to treat cancer, today announced the presentation of preclinical data demonstrating that treatment with NC605, a novel anti-Siglec-15 (S15) antibody, resulted in enhanced generation of quality bone with better mechanical properties, in an oral presentation at the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Federation Europe virtual Investigator Meeting on November 15th, 2024. These results demonstrate that NC605 is a highly effective treatment for Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), also known as brittle bone disease in a well-established model of disease.

BELTSVILLE, Md., Nov. 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class, and best-in-class therapies to treat cancer, today provided a business update and reported third-quarter 2024 financial results.

BELTSVILLE, Md., Nov. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class and best-in-class therapies to treat cancer, today reports pre-clinical data from LNCB74, a B7-H4-targeting antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) being developed in partnership with LigaChem Biosciences (LCB) (KOSDAQ: 141080), and biomarker data from the NC410 combination study with pembrolizumab in patients with immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) naïve and refractory microsatellite stable (MSS)/microsatellite instability-low (MSI-L) colorectal cancer (CRC). The data will be presented during poster sessions at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) annual meeting.

BELTSVILLE, Md., Oct. 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class and best-in-class therapies to treat cancer, today announced two presentations at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) annual meeting, to be held in Houston, TX from November 6-10, 2024. NextCure will share pre-clinical data from LNCB74 (B7-H4 ADC) and biomarker data from NC410 combination study with pembrolizumab in ICI-naïve MSS/MSI-L CRC during poster sessions.

BELTSVILLE, Md., Sept. 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class and best-in-class therapies to treat cancer, today announced that clinical data from the Phase 1b portion of a Phase 1b/2 study evaluating NC410, a LAIR-2 fusion protein, in combination with pembrolizumab was presented at ESMO 2024. The trial, which is evaluating the combination in ovarian cancer and immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) naïve and refractory microsatellite stable (MSS)/microsatellite instability-low (MSI-L) colorectal cancer (CRC), demonstrated clinical activity in these hard-to-treat cancers. The data were presented by clinical trial investigators Emese Zsiros, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Oncology, Chair, Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center (ovarian) and Eric S. Christenson, M.D., Assistant Professor of Oncology at Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center (CRC). The presentations are available on the NextCure website (www.nextcure.com).

BELTSVILLE, Md., Aug. 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- – NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class, and best-in-class therapies to treat cancer, today provided a business update and reported second-quarter 2024 financial results.

BELTSVILLE, Md., June 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class and best-in-class therapies, today announced that it will present and host institutional investor meetings at the H.C. Wainwright 5th Annual Neuro Perspectives Virtual Conference on Thursday, June 27, 2024.  

BELTSVILLE, Md., May 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class and best-in-class therapies to treat cancer, today announced that clinical data from the Phase 1b portion of a Phase 1b/2 study evaluating NC410, a LAIR-2 fusion protein, in combination with pembrolizumab will be presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in Chicago. The trial evaluated the combination in immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) naïve and refractory microsatellite stable (MSS)/microsatellite instability-low (MSI-L) colorectal cancer (CRC) and ovarian cancer and demonstrated clinical activity in these hard-to-treat cancers. The data will be presented in a poster session by clinical trial investigator Eric S. Christenson, M.D., Assistant Professor of Oncology at Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.

BELTSVILLE, Md., May 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class, and best-in-class therapies to treat cancer, today provided a business update and reported its first-quarter 2024 financial results.

BELTSVILLE, Md., April 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class and best-in-class therapies to treat cancer, today announced that clinical trial investigator Eric S. Christenson, M.D., Assistant Professor of Oncology at Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, will present a poster on clinical data from the Phase 1b portion of a study evaluating NC410 in combination with pembrolizumab at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting from May 31 – June 4 in Chicago.

Poster presentation highlights strong safety and pharmacokinetic profiles for LNCB74

BELTSVILLE, Md., April 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class and best-in-class therapies to treat cancer, today announced the appointment of Rakesh Dixit, PhD, to its Scientific Advisory Board. As an accomplished product developer whose expertise is focused on antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), Dr. Dixit will support NextCure in its efforts to build and develop its proprietary ADCs, including LNCB74 directed to B7-H4.

BELTSVILLE, Md., April 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class and best-in-class therapies to treat cancer, today announced that it will present at the 23rd Annual Needham Virtual Healthcare Conference on Thursday, April 11th, at 12:45 pm ET.

BELTSVILLE, Md. – March 21, 2024, March 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class and best-in-class therapies to treat cancer today provided a business update and reported full year 2023 financial results.

BELTSVILLE, Md., March 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class immunomedicines to treat cancer and other immune-related diseases, today announced the publication of a manuscript titled “The FLRT3-UNC5B Checkpoint Pathway Inhibits T Cell-Based Cancer Immunotherapies” in the journal Science Advances, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The publication details preclinical data evaluating the role of Fibronectin Leucine-Rich Transmembrane protein-3 (FLRT3) in the inhibition of T cell activity and the use of a monoclonal antibody to reverse these effects.

BELTSVILLE, Md., Jan. 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class immunomedicines to treat cancer and other immune-related diseases, today announced the presentation of preclinical data relating to a novel humanized monoclonal antibody targeting VSTM-1, for the treatment of progressive inflammatory airway disorders, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), at the Keystone Symposium for Inhibitory Receptors in Immune Homeostasis, Disease and Therapy.

BELTSVILLE, Md., Dec. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class immunomedicines to treat cancer and other immune-related diseases, today announced the publication of a manuscript titled “Anti-Siglec-15 Antibody Prevents Marked Bone Loss after Acute Spinal Cord Injury-Induced Immobilization in Rats” in JMBR Plus, a journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR). The data demonstrated that NC605, a novel anti-Siglec-15 (S15) antibody, prevented bone loss, but more importantly preserved bone strength in animal models of severe immobilization resulting from acute spinal cord injury.

BELTSVILLE, Md., Dec. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class immunomedicines to treat cancer and other immune-related diseases, today provided an update on its clinical pipeline.

BELTSVILLE, Md., Nov. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class immunomedicines to treat cancer and other immune-related diseases, today announced that it will participate in a fireside chat at the 35th Annual Piper Sandler Healthcare Conference in New York City on Thursday, November 30th, at 1:30 pm ET.  

BELTSVILLE, Md., Nov. 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class immunomedicines to treat cancer and other immune-related diseases, today announced the publication of a manuscript titled “LAIR-1 Agonism as a Therapy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia” in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. The data demonstrate that NC525 induces cell death in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) blast cells and leukemic stem cells (LSCs) through leukocyte-associated immunoglobin-like receptor-1 (LAIR-1) agonism by driving a unique apoptotic signaling pathway.

BELTSVILLE, Md., Nov. 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class immunomedicines to treat cancer and other immune-related diseases today provided a business update and reported third quarter 2023 financial results.

Data Presented at the 2023 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) Annual Meeting

BELTSVILLE, Md., Sept. 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class immunomedicines to treat cancer and other immune-related diseases, including neuroinflammatory disease, today announced the presentation of preclinical data relating to NC181, a novel humanized antibody targeting ApoE4, for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), at the 2nd Annual Neurodegeneration Targets, Drug Discovery for Progressive Central Nervous System Disorders conference.

• Data presented at the 2023 World Conference on Lung Cancer hosted by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer in Singapore

BELTSVILLE, Md., Sept. 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class immunomedicines to treat cancer and other immune-related diseases, today announced the publication of a review article in the online journal Frontiers in Immunology, highlighting the need for targeting tumor collagen in the extracellular matrix (ECM) in the tumor microenvironment to enhance anti-tumor immunity.

BELTSVILLE, Md., Sept. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class immunomedicines to treat cancer and other immune-related diseases, today announced the presentation of preclinical data demonstrating that treatment with NC605, a novel anti-Siglec-15 (S15) antibody, reduced bone loss and enhanced bone formation and quality following immobilization in an experimental animal model of acute spinal cord injury (SCI), at the 2023 Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS).

BELTSVILLE, Md., Aug. 31, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class immunomedicines to treat cancer and other immune-related diseases, today announced that it will participate in a fireside chat at the H.C. Wainwright 25th Annual Global Investment Conference in New York City on Monday, September 11th, at 5:00 pm ET.

BELTSVILLE, Md., Aug. 03, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class immunomedicines to treat cancer and other immune-related diseases today provided a business update and reported second quarter 2023 financial results.

BELTSVILLE, Md., June 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class immunomedicines to treat cancer and other immune-related diseases, today announced the presentation of a poster that defines the mechanism of NC525-induced apoptosis of leukemic cells, but not healthy hematopoietic cells, at the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) annual meeting in Boston. NC525 is a humanized monoclonal antibody (mAb) that specifically binds to LAIR-1 and is being developed for the treatment of advanced myeloid leukemias, including acute myeloid leukemia (AML), myelodysplastic syndrome and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML).

BELTSVILLE, Md., May 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class immunomedicines to treat cancer and other immune-related diseases, today announced that it will present at the JMP Securities Life Sciences Conference in New York City on Tuesday, May 16th, at 11:30 am ET.

BELTSVILLE, Md., May 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class immunomedicines to treat cancer and other immune-related diseases today provided a business update and reported first quarter 2023 financial results.

BELTSVILLE, Md., April 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class immunomedicines to treat cancer and other immune-related diseases, today announced that it will present at the 22nd Annual Needham Virtual Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, April 19th, at 10:15 am ET.

BELTSVILLE, Md., March 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class immunomedicines to treat cancer and other immune-related diseases, today provided a business update and reported full year 2022 financial results.

BELTSVILLE, Md., Feb. 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class immunomedicines to treat cancer and other immune-related diseases, today announced that it will present at the SVB Securities Global Biopharma Conference on Wednesday, February 15th at 1:40 pm ET.

BELTSVILLE, Md., Nov. 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class immunomedicines to treat cancer and other immune-related diseases, today announced that it will present at the following investor conferences:

BELTSVILLE, Md. and DAEJEON, South Korea, Nov. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC) and LegoChem Biosciences, Inc. (LCB, KOSDAQ: 141080) today announced a collaboration and co-development agreement focused on generating a B7-H4 antibody drug conjugate (ADC) and options for two additional targets. The B7-H4 ADC will utilize NextCure’s B7-H4 antibody and LCB’s ConjuAllTM ADC technology.

BELTSVILLE, Md., Nov. 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class immunomedicines to treat cancer and other immune-related diseases, today announced that clinical trial investigator Emese Zsiros, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Oncology, Chair, Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, will present initial clinical data from a Phase 1 clinical trial of NC762 and Eric Christenson, M.D., Department of Medical Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, will present a Trials in Progress poster for a combo study of NC410 at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) annual meeting in Boston. The initial clinical data come from a Phase 1 study evaluating NC762, a monoclonal antibody that binds specifically to B7-H4, in patients with advanced/metastatic solid tumors.

BELTSVILLE, Md., Nov. 03, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class immunomedicines to treat cancer and other immune-related diseases, today provided an update and reported third quarter 2022 financial results.

BELTSVILLE, Md., Nov. 03, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class immunomedicines to treat cancer and other immune-related diseases, today announced that clinical trial investigator Nicholas Short, M.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Leukemia at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, will present a Trials in Progress poster for NC525, a novel first-in-class immunomedicine, at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting in New Orleans. NC525 is a humanized monoclonal antibody that specifically binds to leukocyte-associated immunoglobulin-like receptor 1 (LAIR-1) and is being developed for the treatment of advanced myeloid leukemia (AML).

BELTSVILLE, Md., Oct. 27, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class immunomedicines to treat cancer and other immune-related diseases, today announced the appointment of Lisa M. Coussens, PhD, FAACR, to its Scientific Advisory Board. As an accomplished translational tumor immunologist whose research is focused on the role immune cells play in tumor development, Dr. Coussens will support NextCure in its efforts to build and develop its proprietary pipeline of immunomedicines.

BELTSVILLE, Md., Oct. 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class immunomedicines to treat cancer and other immune-related diseases, today announced two presentations at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) annual meeting, to be held in Boston in November 8-12, 2022. NextCure will share new data from its Phase 1 clinical study of NC762 and a high level overview of its ongoing NC410 combination study during poster sessions.

BELTSVILLE, Md., Oct. 04, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class immunomedicines to treat cancer and other immune-related diseases, today announced the initiation of a Phase 1b/2 clinical trial to evaluate NC410 in combination with KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab), Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, in patients with immune checkpoint refractory or immune checkpoint naïve solid tumors. In addition, NextCure announced it has entered into a supply agreement for KEYTRUDA with Merck (known as MSD outside the United States and Canada).