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Nektar Phase II Study: Anti-tumor activity in 7/18 evaluable patients with solid tumors

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Nektar Therapeutics announced that new phase I clinical data for Nektar’s lead immuno-oncology agent, NKTR-214, were presented at the SITC 2016 Annual Meeting.

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