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Enlivex Receives Notice of
Allowance for U.S. Patent Application Covering Methods of Treating Gout, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Crohn's Disease, and
Ulcerative Colitis with Allocetra Immunotherapy
Nes-Ziona, Israel, Nov. 05,
2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Enlivex Therapeutics Ltd. (Nasdaq: ENLV, the "Company"), a clinical-stage immunotherapy company,
today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a notice of allowance for a new patent application covering methods
of using Allocetra , the company's immunotherapy product candidate. Upon issuance, the new patent will provide
added intellectual property protection for methods of treating autoimmune and inflammatory diseases comprising gout, inflammatory
bowel disease, Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis. The company expects that this new patent will be issued in the United
States in the coming months.
Oren Hershkovitz, Ph.D., CEO
of Enlivex, stated: "We are pleased with the allowance of this patent application. While we are focusing our clinical development
efforts at this stage on life-threatening diseases with high mortality rates and no effective treatments, pre-clinical data have
demonstrated the potential applicability of Allocetra in providing immune rebalancing for patients with autoimmune or inflammatory
diseases with unmet needs, such as Crohn's Disease."
Allocetra has been designed
to provide a novel immunotherapy mechanism of action that targets life-threatening clinical indications that are defined
as "unmet medical needs", including organ dysfunction and acute multiple organ failure associated with Sepsis
and COVID-19, as well as treating solid tumors by modulating such tumors' microenvironments. In preclinical models, a positive
effect of Allocetra was observed in several autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.
Enlivex is a clinical stage
immunotherapy company, developing an allogeneic drug pipeline for immune system rebalancing. Immune system rebalancing is critical
for the treatment of life-threatening immune and inflammatory conditions which involve hyper-expression of cytokines (Cytokine
Release Syndrome) and for which there are no approved treatments (unmet medical needs) such as sepsis and COVID-19, as well as
enhancement of immune activity against solid tumors in combination with CAR-T or immune checkpoint therapies. For more information,
visit http://www.enlivex.com.
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for the results of current clinical studies and preclinical experiments, the effectiveness of, and market opportunities for, ALLOCETRA programs.
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business and prospects, including the risks that Enlivex may not succeed in generating any revenues or developing any commercial
products; that the products in development may fail, may not achieve the expected results or effectiveness and/or may not generate
data that would support the approval or marketing of these products for the indications being studied or for other indications;
that ongoing studies may not continue to show substantial or any activity; and other risks and uncertainties that may cause results
to differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements. The results of clinical trials in humans may produce
results that differ significantly from the results of clinical and other trials in animals. The results of early-stage trials
may differ significantly from the results of more developed, later-stage trials. The development of any products using the ALLOCETRA product
line could also be affected by a number of other factors, including unexpected safety, efficacy or manufacturing issues, additional
time requirements for data analyses and decision making, the impact of pharmaceutical industry regulation, the impact of competitive
products and pricing and the impact of patents and other proprietary rights held by competitors and other third parties.
In addition to the risk factors described above, investors should consider the economic, competitive, governmental, technological
and other factors discussed in Enlivex's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in the Company's
most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements
contained in this press release speak only as of the date the statements were made, and we do not undertake any obligation to
update forward-looking statements, except as required under applicable law.
Shachar Shlosberger, CFO
Enlivex Therapeutics, Ltd.
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