The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to Nammi Therapeutics’ lead immunotherapy candidate QXL138AM for multiple myeloma. The first-in-class therapy is designed to kill targeted cancer cells without the “significant toxicities” of other treatments also based on the interferon-alpha (INF-alpha) protein, Nammi said in a press release. “By reducing systemic activation of the immune system, Nammi expects to improve safety and enhance the ability to combine multiple immune modulators,” the…

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