Iovance Biotherapeutics Announces April Scientific and Investor Presentations

SAN CARLOS, Calif., March 29, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: IOVA), a late-stage biotechnology company developing novel cancer immunotherapies based on tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) technology, today announced that the company will present at the following conferences in April:

• American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in Atlanta, March 29-April 3
  
  Title: Persistence of cryopreserved tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte product lifileucel (LN-144) in C-144-01 study of advanced metastatic melanoma
  
  Authors: Viktoria Gontcharova et al.
  
  Session Title: Late-Breaking Research: Immunology 1
  
  Session Type: Late-Breaking Poster Session
  
  Section: 41
  
  Abstract Number: LB-069
  
  Location: Georgia World Congress Center
  
  Date/Time: Monday, April 1, from 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. EDT

• Jefferies 6th Annual IO Cell Therapy Summit in Boston, April 5
  
  Location: Boston Harbor Hotel
  
  Date/Time: Friday, April 5, at 10:35 a.m. EDT             

• HC Wainwright Global Life Science Conference in London, April 7-9
  
  Location: JW Marriott Grosvenor House London
  
  Date/Time: Tuesday, April 9, at 9:50 a.m. BST
  
  A live and archived webcast of the presentation will be available by visiting the Investors section of the Iovance Biotherapeutics website at .

• 2019 Cell & Gene Meeting on the Mediterranean in Barcelona, April 23-25
  
  Location: Hotel Arts Barcelona
  
  Date/Time: Wednesday, April 24, at 12:00 p.m. CEST             

• 15th European Association of Dermato-Oncology (EADO) Congress in Paris,  April 24-27
  
  Title: Safety and efficacy of cryopreserved autologous tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (LN-144, lifileucel) in previously treated metastatic melanoma patients (Encore presentation)
  
  Location: Maison de la Chimie Conference Center
  
  Date/Time: Thursday, April 25 at 2:07 p.m. CEST

About Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc.



Iovance Biotherapeutics intends to commercialize autologous cell therapy using tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) technology that amplifies the body’s own immune response to eradicate solid tumors or attack blood cancers. The company is currently conducting the pivotal study innovaTIL-01 in patients with metastatic melanoma. In addition, the company’s TIL therapies are being investigated for the treatment of patients with locally advanced, recurrent or metastatic cancers including cervical, head and neck, and non-small cell lung cancer. For more information, please visit .

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