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Micromet Adds Sir Walter Bodmer and Bernard Fox to Its Advisory Panel for BiTE Antibody Therapeutics
Date:3/19/2009

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BETHESDA, Md., March 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Micromet, Inc. (Nasdaq: MITI), a biopharmaceutical company developing novel, proprietary antibodies for the treatment of cancer, inflammation and autoimmune diseases, today announced the the appointment of Sir Walter Bodmer and Bernard Fox to its BiTE antibody advisory panel. Other members of the company's advisory panel include professors Richard Flavell (Yale University), Michael Keating (MD Anderson), Ronald Levy (Stanford University), Jeffrey Ravetch (Rockefeller University), and Anthony Tolcher (START).

Sir Walter Bodmer holds a Ph.D. degree from Cambridge University, UK, and, among several other appointments, was Chair of Genetics of Oxford University, Director-General of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF), President of the International Human Genome Organization (HUGO), President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and Chancellor of the University of Salford. He retired as Principal of Hertford College, Oxford, where he continues scientific work at the Cancer and Immunogenetics Laboratory of the Weatherall Institute. Sir Walter Bodmer did seminal work in the area of bacterial genetics, molecular and biochemical analysis of the HLA system and its association with disease, differentiation and malignant transformation of colonic epithelial cells, and has profound expertise in immunotherapeutic targets CEA and EpCAM, which are being targeted by Micromet's product candidates adecatumumab, MT110 and MT111/MEDI-565.

Bernard Fox is President of the International Society for the Biological Therapy of Cancer, and Chief of the Laboratory of Molecular and Tumor Immunology at the Robert W. Franz Cancer Research Center
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