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BOSTON, Aug. 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Elicio Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ELTX), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing a pipeline of novel immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer, today announced the appointment of Megan Filoon as General Counsel and Dr. Thian Kheoh as Senior Vice President of Biometrics. Ms. Filoon will oversee all company legal affairs including corporate governance and compliance functions. Dr. Kheoh will provide biostatistical leadership and strategic guidance into the development of the Company’s product candidate portfolio including the ongoing AMPLIFY-201 and AMPLIFY-7P trials of the lead asset, ELI-002. “Megan and Thian are joining us at an exciting time following our recent transition to a public company and as we continue to advance our lead clinical cancer vaccine candidate, ELI-002, for patients with mKRAS-driven cancers,” said Robert Connelly, Chief Executive Officer at Elicio Therapeutics. “Megan and Thian further strengthen an outstanding leadership team and their expertise will be invaluable in strengthening our legal and compliance functions, and processing data from our AMPLIFY trials, respectively.” Megan Filoon most recently served as the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Molecular Templates, Inc., a publicly traded, oncology-focused biotech, where she was responsible for providing legal counsel to the company’s board of directors and management team and advising on corporate governance, securities, employment, and real estate matters, among other areas. In this role, Ms. Filoon was responsible for managing the legal, human resources and administrative departments. She joined Molecular Templates as Corporate Counsel and during her time there, held roles of increasing responsibility, becoming General Counsel in February 2022. Prior to joining Molecular Templates, Ms. Filoon was a corporate associate at Blank Rome LLP, where she represented public and private companies in mergers and acquisitions, asset sales, securities offerings, business formation and corporate governance matters. She earned her Juris Doctor from Rutgers School of Law, where she was the Business Editor of the Rutgers Journal of Law and Public Policy, and her Bachelor of Arts in history and political science from Boston University. Thian Kheoh, Ph.D., has over 30 years of drug development and clinical trial experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. He most recently served as Vice President of Biometrics at Mirati Therapeutics where he led the Biometrics team in obtaining the FDA approval of KRAZATI® for KRAS G12C NSCLC patients. Prior to Mirati, he held roles of increasing responsibility at Tocagen, Janssen, Cougar Biotechnology, Biogen-Idec (now Biogen), TAP and Warner Lambert-Parke Davis. His work focused on exploring the application of statistical methodologies in preclinical and clinical studies, introducing novel statistical principles to trial design and strategic planning to bring effective drugs to cancer patients. Dr. Kheoh played an integral role in a number of successful global regulatory submissions and approvals of products that include ERLEADA®, DARZALEX®, OMNICEF®, SYLVANT®, VELCADE®, YONDELIS®, ZYTIGA® and the label expansion of RITUXAN®. Before joining the biopharmaceutical industry, he was an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida conducting research and providing lectures in Statistics. Dr. Kheoh earned his Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. About Elicio Therapeutics Elicio Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing a pipeline of novel immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer. By combining expertise in immunology and immunotherapy, Elicio is engineering investigational Amphiphile (AMP) immunotherapies intended to precisely target and fully engage the lymph nodes, the site in our bodies where the immune response is orchestrated. Elicio is engineering lymph node-targeted AMPlifiers, immunomodulators, adjuvants and vaccines for an array of aggressive cancers. Cautionary Note on Forward-Looking Statements Certain statements contained in this communication regarding matters that are not historical facts, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, known as the PSLRA. 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Such forward-looking statements are based on our expectations and involve risks and uncertainties; consequently, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in the statements due to a number of factors, including, but not limited to Elicio’s plans to research, develop and commercialize its current and future product candidates. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for us to predict all such factors, nor can we assess the impact of each such factor on the business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements. These risks are more fully discussed in the current report on Form 8-K that was filed with the SEC on June 2, 2023 and Elicio’s periodic reports and other documents filed from time to time with the SEC. Forward-looking statements included in this release are based on information available to Elicio as of the date of this release. Elicio does not undertake any obligation to update such forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release, except to the extent required by law. Media ContactGloria GasaaturaLifeSci Communicationsggasaatura@lifescicomms.com646-970-4688 Investor Relations ContactHeather DiVecchiaElicio TherapeuticsIR@elicio.com857-209-0153

A new study finds that overprescribing and inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics is not only leading to antibiotic resistance, but also causing significant patient harm. It's one of the most comprehensive studies to document the impact of antibiotic overuse in clinical practice. When patients request or demand an antibiotic, even when it is unlikely to help, a physician might be tempted to give in and write a prescription, especially if they're working in a busy setting like an urgent care or emergency department. However, a major new study by researchers at Intermountain Health and Stanford University finds that overprescribing and inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics is not only leading to antibiotic resistance -- but also causing significant patient harm. It's one of the most comprehensive studies to document the impact of antibiotic overuse in clinical practice. Every year, there are enough outpatient antibiotics prescribed in the US to cover 80% of the population. The new study, published in the Journal of Internal Medicine, examined 51 million patient encounters over a 15-year-period and focused on upper respiratory infections where antibiotics were known to be overprescribed 50% of the time. Researchers found that some of the most dangerous antibiotics were rarely indicated and commonly used, leading to one in 300 of those patients experiencing side effects dire enough to require a follow up doctor's visit -- or even hospitalization. This study was one of the few studies large enough to estimate serious, but rare, adverse events such as a potentially deadly diarrheal infection, Clostridium difficile. With previous studies showing 34 Million unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions annually in the US, this translates to real harm for many patients and families. "These findings underscore that inappropriately giving patients antibiotics is causing real and widespread harm," said Harris Carmichael, MD, principal investigator of the study and hospitalist at Intermountain Health in Salt Lake City. "Having these kinds of side effects for one in a few hundred, or even a thousand, patients may not seem like a lot, but when you look at this problem on a population health level, we're talking about hundreds of thousands of adverse events severe enough that these patients needed additional care from a doctor." That means time off work and school for families, unnecessary doctor visits, and risks of serious infections that can last for months or years. In the retrospective study, researchers from Intermountain and Stanford reviewed insurance claims from the Clinformatics Data Mark Database. Using data from Medicare Advantage and commercial insurance patients in all 50 states, inpatient and outpatient administrative claims, pharmaceutical claims, and patient demographics for beneficiaries seen between December 2002 and December 2017, they found 50.9 million claims for upper respiratory infections, including sinusitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, bronchitis and the common cold, representing 23 million unique patients. Researchers then identified instances when patients did and did not receive oral antibiotics for an upper respiratory infection, and if those patients were diagnosed with either diarrhea, candidiasis, Clostridium difficile infection or a mix of these side effects thereafter. They found that 62.4% of these upper respiratory infection patients filled a prescription for an antibiotic, consistent with prior studies of this population. Following their initial visits, 26% of those patients had a follow-up outpatient visit within 14 days. The odds of a patient being diagnosed with an adverse event increased 30% for those receiving antibiotics. Adverse events following antibiotics were found in as many as one in 300 prescriptions, depending on the antibiotic prescribed, or one in 1,150 prescriptions overall. "With millions of visits for upper respiratory infections in the United States each year, the extent of these severe adverse events is significant," said Dr. Carmichael. Researchers also found that the antibiotic Cefdinir was the fourth most prescribed antibiotic for these patients, despite it rarely being recommended by prescription guidelines as an appropriate treatment for simple upper respiratory infections. This drug also had the second highest chance of leading to an adverse event. That means that patients are being prescribed a medication that is either not needed at all or unlikely to be the most appropriate medication for their condition and is routinely causing harm, said Dr. Carmichael. He added that the chance of adverse events is likely much higher, as these results only capture follow-up visits where their adverse event was coded as such for insurance purposes. That means the results do not include adverse events where physicians didn't code for that specific side effect, nor for patients who weren't sick enough to be seen in a doctor's office but may still have had additional and unnecessary time for recovery. These findings point to the increasingly important need for antibiotic stewardship programs, so that physicians are following prescribing guidelines and "only prescribe antibiotics when necessary, and then it's the right antibiotics for the right condition," said Dr. Carmichael. When Intermountain implemented their own enhanced antibiotic stewardship programs, which included explaining to patients why they weren't being prescribed an antibiotic if they asked for it, the health system reduced their overall prescribing rates by more than 15%. "Patients don't get upset when they don't get antibiotics, as long as we take the time to explain their condition and that we're treating them in the way that is best for them," said Dr. Carmichael.