LEAP THERAPEUTICS INC. overview

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 08, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leap Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq:LPTX), a biotechnology company developing targeted and immuno-oncology therapeutics, today reported a business update and financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2018. “Over the past few months, we have seen patients in the studies of both of our antibody programs experience clinical responses in combination with checkpoint inhibitors, including in patients who would not be expected to respond...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 23, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leap Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq:LPTX), a biotechnology company developing targeted and immuno-oncology therapeutics, today announced it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and Pfizer to evaluate Leap’s GITR agonist, TRX518, in combination with avelumab*, a human anti-PD-L1 IgG1 monoclonal antibody, and chemotherapy. Under the terms of the collaboration, Leap will be conducting a Phase I/II clinical...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 13, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leap Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:LPTX), a biotechnology company developing targeted and immuno-oncology therapeutics, today announced that Christopher K. Mirabelli, Ph.D., Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, will present a corporate overview at the 2018 JMP Securities Life Sciences Conference, being held in New York City on June 20-21, 2018. JMP Securities Life Sciences Conference – Leap Presentation Details: Date: Wednesday, June...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 11, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leap Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:LPTX), a biotechnology company developing targeted and immuno-oncology therapeutics, today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2018. “We had a strong first quarter, as we presented data from our study of DKN-01 as a monotherapy and in combination with KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) in patients with esophagogastric cancer, and dosed the first patients in new trials for both of our...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 16, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leap Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:LPTX) today presented nonclinical and clinical data on DKN-01, Leap’s anti-DKK1 monoclonal antibody, at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2018 Annual Meeting. The presentation highlighted the immunomodulatory activity of DKN-01 in nonclinical experiments and preliminary results from the dose escalation phase of the clinical study evaluating DKN-01 in combination with the Merck (known as MSD...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 27, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leap Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:LPTX), a biotechnology company focused on developing targeted and immuno-oncology therapeutics, today announced the closing of a public offering of 2,146,667 shares of its common stock, which includes the sale of an additional 280,000 shares of its common stock pursuant to the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares. Total gross proceeds to Leap from this offering were $16.1...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 23, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leap Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:LPTX), a biotechnology company focused on developing targeted and immuno-oncology therapeutics, today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 1,866,667 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $7.50 per share. The gross proceeds to Leap from this offering are expected to be approximately $14.0 million, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other estimated...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 22, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leap Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:LPTX), a biotechnology company focused on developing targeted and immuno-oncology therapeutics, today announced that it has commenced an underwritten public offering of its common stock. All shares of common stock to be sold in the offering will be offered by Leap. Leap intends to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an aggregate of an additional 15% of the shares of its common stock offered...