SELLAS Life Sciences Announces Inclusion in Russell Microcap® Index

NEW YORK, June 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (Nasdaq: SLS) ("SELLAS" or the “Company”), a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel cancer immunotherapies for a broad range of indications, today announced that the Company will be included in the Russell Microcap® Index effective after the U.S. market opens on Monday, June 28, 2021, as based on the preliminary list of additions.



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“Inclusion in the Russell Microcap® Index represents another important milestone for SELLAS and is an achievement that will undoubtedly increase awareness and visibility of our company within the investment community,” said Angelos Stergiou, MD, ScD hc, President and Chief Executive Officer, SELLAS. “Our inclusion is a testament to our diligent work on our clinical development programs for our lead asset, galinpepimut-S (GPS) which have the potential to result in a treatment for multiple cancer indications that will help patients to stay in remission and live longer. We look forward to sharing the SELLAS story as well as updates on our execution and milestones, which are currently on track, with a wider investor audience as part of the FTSE Russell Microcap® Index.”

Membership in the Russell Microcap® Index, which remains in place for one year, means automatic inclusion in the appropriate growth and value style indexes. FTSE Russell determines membership for its Russell indexes primarily by objective market-capitalization rankings and style attributes.

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About SELLAS Life Sciences Group, Inc.

SELLAS is a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel cancer immunotherapeutics for a broad range of indications. SELLAS’ lead product candidate, GPS, is licensed from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and targets the WT1 protein, which is present in an array of tumor types. GPS has potential both as a monotherapy and in combination to address a broad spectrum of hematologic malignancies and solid tumor indications. SELLAS’ second product candidate, nelipepimut-S (NPS), is a HER2-directed cancer immunotherapy with potential to treat patients with early-stage breast cancer with low to intermediate HER2 expression, otherwise known as HER2 1+ or 2+, which includes triple negative breast cancer patients, following the standard of care.

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Forward-Looking Statements

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Investor Contacts

Valter Pinto / Allison Soss

KCSA Strategic Communications

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Phone: 914.907.2675 / 215.272.2707

Media Contacts

Caitlin Kasunich / Raquel Cona

KCSA Strategic Communications

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Phone: 212.896.1241 / 212.896.1276