Wil Helmus schreef op 19 december 2020 20:31:
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Reactie van Affimed kenner Dieter Hovekamp is veelzeggend:
Thanks for your article, but reading it sound more like a desperate short than a long.
Actually AFM13 is in a registrational trial and has finished recruitment of the first two arms. This and the granted AFM13 ODD (Orphan Drug Designation see www.affimed.com/... ) should lead to a dialog with the FDA on accelerated approval ASAP if data are in line with the just reported investigator initiated trial (see www.affimed.com/... ).
Why should AFMD hang around at $600m mcap or even drop to $300m when an earlier stage FATE is currently running at over $8B?
Actually there seems to be some confusion what Affimed actually provides. AFMD is not an NK cell company as all the others but a platform company that can provide many different innate cell engagers (ICE) and other constructs via its ROCK platform. These ICE can help immune cell providers - be it the patients themself or any kind of autologous, donor-derived, or off-the-shelf cell company - to direct its cell therapies against cancer or other targets.This includes NK and CAR-NK cell therapies from the new partners NKMax America, Artiva, and e.g. FATE. Affimed currently does NOT compete with those cell providers via own immune cells as the article suggests but can support any of them in a partnership.