Candel Therapeutics

Candel Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical stage biotechnology company, which engages in the development and commercialization of viral immunotherapies. The company is headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts and currently employs 55 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2021-07-27. CAN-2409 is the lead product candidate from the adenovirus platform. CAN-3110 is the lead product candidate from the herpes simplex virus (HSV) platform and is in an ongoing phase Ib clinical trial in recurrent high-grade glioma. Its enLIGHTEN Discovery Platform is a systematic, iterative HSV-based discovery platform leveraging human biology and advanced analytics to create new viral immunotherapies for solid tumors. CAN-2409, Its advanced multimodal biological immunotherapy candidate, is an investigational, off-the-shelf, replication-defective adenovirus engineered to deliver the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (HSV-tk) gene to a patient’s specific tumor and induce an individualized, systemic immune response against the tumor.