Candel Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, engages in the development and commercialization of cancer immunotherapy drugs. The company offers Gene Mediated Cytotoxic Immunotherapy technology-based drugs that are designed to work with radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery to eradicate residual tumor cells that could lead to recurrence or metastases. Its product candidates include CAN-2409, an off-the-shelf adenovirus product candidate, for the treatment of localized, primary prostate cancer and therapy for pancreatic cancer; and CAN-3110, its HSV product candidate, has been engineered for enhanced specificity and tumor cell killing, while minimizing toxicity on healthy tissue and indicated for the treatment of recurrent high-grade glioma. The company was formerly known as Advantagene, Inc. and changed its name to Candel Therapeutics, Inc. in November 2020. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Needham, Massachusetts.
IPO Year: 2021
Exchange: NASDAQ
Website: candeltx.com
| Date | Price Target | Rating | Analyst |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2/20/2025 | $25.00 | Buy | Citigroup |
| 2/19/2025 | $20.00 | Buy | Canaccord Genuity |
| 2/7/2025 | $15.00 | Buy | BofA Securities |
| 12/2/2022 | $11.00 | Buy | H.C. Wainwright |
| 11/19/2021 | $18.00 | Outperform | BMO Capital |
| 8/23/2021 | $9.00 | Buy | UBS |
| 8/23/2021 | $22.00 | Buy | Jefferies |
| 8/23/2021 | $15.00 | Outperform | Credit Suisse |
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Citigroup initiated coverage of Candel Therapeutics with a rating of Buy and set a new price target of $25.00
Canaccord Genuity initiated coverage of Candel Therapeutics with a rating of Buy and set a new price target of $20.00
BofA Securities initiated coverage of Candel Therapeutics with a rating of Buy and set a new price target of $15.00
H.C. Wainwright initiated coverage of Candel Therapeutics with a rating of Buy and set a new price target of $11.00
BMO Capital initiated coverage of Candel Therapeutics with a rating of Outperform and set a new price target of $18.00
UBS initiated coverage of Candel Therapeutics with a rating of Buy and set a new price target of $9.00
Jefferies initiated coverage of Candel Therapeutics with a rating of Buy and set a new price target of $22.00
Credit Suisse initiated coverage of Candel Therapeutics with a rating of Outperform and set a new price target of $15.00
NEEDHAM, Mass., June 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (Candel or the Company) (NASDAQ:CADL), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing multimodal biological immunotherapies to help patients fight cancer, today announced the appointment of Maha Radhakrishnan, M.D., to the Company's Board of Directors (Board) effective June 4, 2025. "We are delighted to welcome Maha as a new member of Candel's Board," said Paul Peter Tak, M.D., Ph.D., FMedSci, President and Chief Executive Officer of Candel. "Her extensive industry experience will be extremely valuable as Candel advances its late-stage oncology programs toward potential approval and commercial de
NEEDHAM, Mass., May 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (Candel or the Company) (NASDAQ:CADL), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing multimodal biological immunotherapies to help patients fight cancer, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation to CAN-2409 (aglatimagene besadenovec), the Company's biological immunotherapy lead candidate, for the treatment of newly diagnosed localized prostate cancer in patients with intermediate-to-high-risk disease. CAN-2409 was also previously granted FDA Fast Track designation for the same indication. The FDA's RMA
NEEDHAM, Mass., May 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (Candel or the Company) (NASDAQ:CADL), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing multimodal biological immunotherapies to help patients fight cancer, today announced that Candel management will host a webcast and conference call on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, at 1:00PM ET. The call will discuss the Company's positive phase 3 clinical results for CAN-2409 in localized, intermediate-to-high risk prostate cancer, which demonstrated a statistically significant 30% reduction in disease recurrence compared with placebo when combined with standard-of-care radiation therapy. The discussion will follow Dr.
NEEDHAM, Mass., May 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (Candel or the Company) (NASDAQ:CADL), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing multimodal biological immunotherapies to help patients fight cancer, today announced that results from the Company's positive phase 3 clinical trial of aglatimagene besadenovec (CAN-2409) in patients with intermediate-to-high-risk localized prostate cancer will be presented at the 2025 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting taking place in Chicago, IL, from May 30 to June 3, 2025. The objective of this study was to assess whether adding CAN-2409 in combination with the prodrug valacyclovir to
Announced accepted oral presentation of positive phase 3 randomized placebo controlled clinical trial results of CAN-2409 (aglatimagene besadenovec) in localized prostate cancer at the 2025 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual MeetingPreparations on track for Biologics License Application (BLA) for CAN-2409 in intermediate-to-high-risk localized prostate cancer, with submission expected in Q4 2026Recently announced both prolonged median overall survival (mOS) and a long tail of survival in an open label phase 2a clinical trial of CAN-2409 in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients, non-responsive to immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) treatment, particularly those p
NEEDHAM, Mass., May 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (Candel or the Company) (NASDAQ:CADL), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing multimodal biological immunotherapies to help patients fight cancer, announced today that management will present and participate in one-on-one meetings with investors at upcoming investor conferences. Bank of America Securities 2025 Health Care Conference (Las Vegas, NV)Presenter: Francesca Barone, MD, PhD, Candel's Chief Scientific OfficerDate/Time: Wednesday, May 14, 2025, at 4:20 PM PT / 7:20 PM ETWebcast Link: Bank of America / Candel Presentation Jefferies G
NEEDHAM, Mass., April 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (Candel or the Company) (NASDAQ:CADL), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing multimodal biological immunotherapies to help patients fight cancer, today announced that an abstract was accepted for an oral presentation at the 2025 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting taking place May 30 to June 3, 2025, in Chicago, IL. The oral presentation will feature data from the Company's phase 3 clinical trial of CAN-2409 in patients with intermediate-to-high risk localized prostate cancer. Details are as follows: CAN-2409 – Localized Prostate Cancer Abstract Title: Phase 3,
NEEDHAM, Mass., April 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (Candel or the Company) (NASDAQ:CADL), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing multimodal biological immunotherapies to help patients fight cancer, today announced the publication of a manuscript reporting the results of a phase 1b clinical trial exploring safety and tolerability of the combination of CAN-2409 plus prodrug (valacyclovir) and nivolumab, in addition to standard of care (neurosurgery, radiotherapy, and temozolomide), in patients with newly diagnosed high-grade glioma. The study, which includes evidence of clinical activity and extensive biomarker analysis, has been published
Experimental treatment with CAN-2409 was associated with a median overall survival (mOS) of 24.5 months in patients with advanced NSCLC who had an inadequate response to ICI treatment, failed several chemotherapy regimens, and presented with multiple negative prognostic factors at enrollment (90% of the patients had stage IV disease, most patients had low or undetectable PDL-1 expression, > 90% were current or former smokers, and most patients had failed multiple lines of chemotherapy)mOS of 21.5 months was observed in patients with progressive disease at baseline despite ICI therapy (cohort 2), markedly exceeding mOS which has been reported in published literature for this population with s
NEEDHAM, Mass., March 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (Candel or the Company) (NASDAQ:CADL), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing multimodal biological immunotherapies to help patients fight cancer, together with IDEA Pharma, a Division of SAI MedPartners (IDEA), a pioneering biopharmaceutical strategy consultancy, today announced a strategic commercial partnership. Under this agreement, IDEA will provide strategic commercial input throughout the development and commercialization process for Candel's lead asset, CAN-2409. This partnership comes at a pivotal time for Candel following positive phase 3 data for CAN-2409 in intermediate-to-hi
NEEDHAM, Mass., June 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (Candel or the Company) (NASDAQ:CADL), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing multimodal biological immunotherapies to help patients fight cancer, today announced the appointment of Maha Radhakrishnan, M.D., to the Company's Board of Directors (Board) effective June 4, 2025. "We are delighted to welcome Maha as a new member of Candel's Board," said Paul Peter Tak, M.D., Ph.D., FMedSci, President and Chief Executive Officer of Candel. "Her extensive industry experience will be extremely valuable as Candel advances its late-stage oncology programs toward potential approval and commercial de
NEEDHAM, Mass., March 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (Candel or the Company) (NASDAQ:CADL), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing multimodal biological immunotherapies to help patients fight cancer, today announced the appointment of Elizabeth M. Jaffee, M.D., to the Company's Research Advisory Board (RAB). Dr. Jaffee, an internationally recognized expert in cancer immunology and pancreatic cancer, brings her extensive expertise to the RAB, which is important in light of the Company's focus on borderline resectable pancreatic cancer. Dr. Jaffee currently serves as the Dana and Albert "Cubby" Broccoli Professor of Oncology, Deputy Dire
MONTREAL and CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Milestone® Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:MIST), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative cardiovascular medicines, today announced the appointment of Joseph Papa to its Board of Directors ("Board"), effective September 3, 2024. Mr. Papa is a renowned pharmaceutical and healthcare leader, with more than 35 years of experience navigating companies through periods of rapid growth, transformation, and strategic M&A transactions, including as former Chairman and CEO of Bausch + Lomb, Bausch Health and Perrigo and as a director of SparingVision and Candel Therapeutics. He brings bro
NEEDHAM, Mass., June 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (Candel or the Company) (NASDAQ:CADL), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing multimodal biological immunotherapies to help patients fight cancer, today announced that the Company is set to join the broad-market Russell 3000 Index at the conclusion of the 2024 Russell US Indexes annual reconstitution, effective at the open of US equity markets on Monday, July 1, 2024, according to a preliminary list of additions posted Friday, May 24, 2024. The annual Russell US Indexes reconstitution captures the 4,000 largest US stocks as of Tuesday, April 30th, ranking them by total market capitaliza
NEEDHAM, Mass., June 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (Candel or the Company) (NASDAQ:CADL), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing viral immunotherapies to help patients fight cancer, today announced the appointment of Nicoletta Loggia, PhD, RPh, to the Company's Board of Directors (Board) effective June 7, 2023. "We are pleased to welcome Nicoletta as a new member of Candel's Board," said Paul Peter Tak, MD, PhD, FMedSci, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Candel. "Her wealth of strategic and hands-on industry experience in drug development and manufacturing makes her an important addition to our Board as we advance our late-
Discovery collaboration underway with Center for Cellular Immunotherapies Lab at University of Pennsylvania to Study Combinations of Novel Viral Immunotherapy and CAR-T Cell Therapy Candidates in Solid Tumor ModelsUpcoming clinical data presentations at SITC and SNO Annual MeetingsVirtual R&D Day on December 6, 2022, with Candel leadership and renowned oncology experts NEEDHAM, Mass., Nov. 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (Candel or the Company) (NASDAQ:CADL), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on helping patients fight cancer with viral immunotherapies, today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022 and provided a cor
NEEDHAM, Mass., May 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (Candel or the Company) (NASDAQ:CADL), a late clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on helping patients fight cancer with oncolytic viral immunotherapies, today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022 and provided a corporate update. "2022 is off to a great start as we continue to advance our late-stage pipeline of novel oncolytic viral immunotherapies for cancer," said Paul Peter Tak, MD, PhD, FMedSci, President and Chief Executive Officer of Candel. "Today, we are well positioned for major catalysts over the next 12 months, namely multiple clinical data readouts across our
NEEDHAM, Mass., March 02, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:CADL), a late clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel oncolytic viral immunotherapies, today announced that Seshu Tyagarajan Ph.D., RAC, has been named as the company's Chief Technical and Development Officer. Dr. Tyagarajan brings to Candel over two decades of technical, manufacturing and development experience in biologics and cell and gene therapies (CGT). Dr. Tyagarajan joins the company from Novartis, where she was most recently Executive Director and Global Head, Late Stage CMC Strategy for CGT. She was a member of the Novartis leadership team responsible for building a CGT pipelin
NEEDHAM, Mass., Feb. 03, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:CADL), a late clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel oncolytic viral immunotherapies, today announced that Francesca Barone, M.D., Ph.D., has been named as the company's Chief Scientific Officer. Dr. Barone brings more than 20 years of experience in immunology, experimental medicine, and innovative drug development to help bring important new therapeutics to the clinic. Dr. Barone was previously Candel's Vice President, Head of Research having joined the company in November 2020. Prior to Candel, Dr. Barone was Head of Experimental Medicine at Kintai Therapeutics and Senda Biosciences, t
NEEDHAM, Mass., Oct. 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:CADL), a late clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel oncolytic viral immunotherapies, today announced it has appointed Mace L. Rothenberg, MD, as a senior advisor to its President and Chief Executive Officer, Paul Peter Tak, MD, PhD, FMedSci. Dr. Rothenberg, an industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience across government, academia and industry, will help support the company's continued growth and acceleration. "I am delighted to welcome Mace as an advisor to Candel Therapeutics to further strengthen our team," said Dr. Tak. "His impressive background as a physician-executive
NEEDHAM, Mass., May 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (Candel or the Company) (NASDAQ:CADL), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing multimodal biological immunotherapies to help patients fight cancer, today announced that Candel management will host a webcast and conference call on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, at 1:00PM ET. The call will discuss the Company's positive phase 3 clinical results for CAN-2409 in localized, intermediate-to-high risk prostate cancer, which demonstrated a statistically significant 30% reduction in disease recurrence compared with placebo when combined with standard-of-care radiation therapy. The discussion will follow Dr.
Positive topline data for CAN-2409 viral immunotherapy achieved primary endpoint by demonstrating statistically significant and clinically meaningful benefit when combined with radiation therapy for intermediate-to-high risk, localized prostate cancerThe safety profile of CAN-2409 was generally consistent with previous studies, with no new safety signals identifiedThe phase 3 clinical trial was conducted under a Special Protocol Assessment (SPA) with the FDA NEEDHAM, Mass., Dec. 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (Candel or the Company) (NASDAQ:CADL), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing multimodal biological immunotherapies to help patients
Expects to announce clinical trial data from multiple oncology programs in the second half of 2023Extends cash runway into second quarter of 2024 NEEDHAM, Mass., March 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (Candel or the Company) (NASDAQ:CADL), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing viral immunotherapies to help patients fight cancer, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2022 and provided a corporate update. "Our 2022 achievements reaffirm our belief that using our viral immunotherapies to mobilize the patient's immune system to fight cancer represents a promising a
NEEDHAM, Mass., Aug. 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (Candel or the Company) (NASDAQ:CADL), a late clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on helping patients fight cancer with oncolytic viral immunotherapies, today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022 and provided a corporate update. "Candel remains on track to achieve several milestones in the second half of 2022," said Paul Peter Tak, MD, PhD, FMedSci, President and Chief Executive Officer of Candel. "We are encouraged by the initial phase 2 clinical trial data for CAN-2409 in non-small cell lung cancer presented in June at ASCO. The data presented at ASCO showed an 87.5