Humanigen (NASDAQ: HGEN), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on preventing and treating an immune hyper-response called “cytokine storm” with its lead drug candidate lenzilumab, has closed an underwritten public offering of 9,200,000 shares of common stock, including 1,200,000 shares pursuant to the full exercise of the over-allotment option granted to the underwriters. According to the update, Humanigen secured approximately $78.2 million in gross proceeds, with each of the shares sold at the public offering price of $8.50. The company intends to use the proceeds to support its manufacturing, production and commercial preparation activities relating to lenzilumab as a potential therapy for COVID-19 patients and for general corporate purposes. Roth Capital Partners acted as co-manager for the offering.
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About Humanigen Inc.
Humanigen is developing its portfolio of clinical and pre-clinical therapies for the treatment of cancers and infectious diseases via its novel, cutting-edge GM-CSF neutralization and gene-knockout platforms. The company believes that its GM-CSF neutralization and gene-editing platform technologies have the potential to reduce the inflammatory cascade associated with coronavirus infection. The company’s immediate focus is to prevent or minimize the cytokine release syndrome that precedes severe lung dysfunction and ARDS in serious cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
The company is also focused on creating next-generation combinatory gene-edited CAR-T therapies using strategies to improve efficacy while employing GM-CSF gene knockout technologies to control toxicity. In addition, the company is developing its own portfolio of proprietary first-in-class EphA3-CAR-T for various solid cancers and EMR1-CAR-T for various eosinophilic disorders. The company is also exploring the effectiveness of its GM-CSF neutralization technologies (either through the use of lenzilumab as a neutralizing antibody or through GM-CSF gene knockout) in combination with other CAR-T, bispecific or natural killer (“NK”) T cell engaging immunotherapy treatments to break the efficacy/toxicity linkage, including to prevent and/or treat graft-versus-host disease (“GvHD”) in patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (“HSCT”). Additionally, Humanigen and Kite, a Gilead Company, are evaluating lenzilumab in combination with Yescarta(R) (axicabtagene ciloleucel) in patients with relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma in a clinical collaboration. For more information, please visit www.Humanigen.com.
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