Agenus Inc (AGEN) Financier

Agenus, Inc. is a clinical-stage company, which engages in the development and commercialization of technologies to treat cancers and infectious diseases. The company is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts and currently employs 81 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2000-02-04. The firm is focused on expanding patient populations benefiting from cancer immunotherapy through combination approaches, using a broad repertoire of antibody therapeutics, adoptive cell therapies (through MiNK Therapeutics) and adjuvants. Its I-O portfolio is driven by several platforms and programs, which include multiple antibody discovery platforms, antibody candidate programs, its saponin-based vaccine adjuvant platform, and a pipeline of novel allogeneic invariant natural killer T cell (iNKT) therapies for treating cancer and other immune-mediated diseases, controlled by MiNK. Its antibody candidate programs include botensilimab (BOT) and balstilimab (BAL) (a PD-1 blocking antibody). The firm has secured committed manufacturing capacity to support BOT+BAL supply needs for its clinical trials, global access programs and future commercialization.