SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May  01, 2025  (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lyell Immunopharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: LYEL), a clinical-stage company advancing a pipeline of next-generation CAR T-cell therapies for patients with cancer, today announced that an abstract highlighting new clinical data from the Phase 1/2 trial of LYL314 (formerly IMPT-314) in large B-cell lymphoma will be presented as an oral presentation at the International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma (ICML) 2025 taking place in Lugano, Switzerland June 17-21, 2025.

LYL314 is a dual-targeting CD19/CD20 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell product candidate in development for patients with aggressive large B-cell lymphoma. LYL314 has received Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy and Fast Track designations from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of patients with relapsed and/or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in the 3rd or later line setting.

Details of the presentation are below:

LYL314, a CD19/CD20 CAR T-cell candidate enriched for CD62L+ stem-like cells, achieves high rates of durable complete responses in R/R large B-cell lymphoma

Session Name: Focus on New Cellular TherapiesPresentation Date & Time: June 18, 2025, 5:40 pm CEST (11:40 am ET)Presenting Author: Akil Merchant, MD, Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Lymphoma Program at the Samuel Oschin Cancer Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CAPresentation Number: 106Location: Room B

About Lyell

Lyell is a clinical-stage company advancing a pipeline of next-generation CAR T-cell therapies for patients with hematologic malignancies and solid tumors. To realize the potential of cell therapy for cancer, Lyell utilizes a suite of technologies to endow CAR T cells with attributes needed to drive durable tumor cytotoxicity and achieve consistent and long-lasting clinical responses, including the ability to resist exhaustion, maintain qualities of durable stemness and function in the hostile tumor microenvironment. To learn more, please visit www.lyell.com.

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