Micromet to Present New Clinical Data on Blinatumomab at EHA and on Adecatumumab at ASCO

Activity of Blinatumomab in NHL and ALL Highlighted at the 14th Congress of the European Hematology Association (EHA)



BETHESDA, Md., May 20  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Micromet, Inc. (NASDAQ: MITI), a biopharmaceutical company developing novel, proprietary antibodies for the treatment of cancer, inflammation and autoimmune diseases, today announced an oral(1) and a poster presentation(2) of blinatumomab data at the 14th Congress of European Hematology Association (EHA) taking place from June 4-7, 2009, in Berlin, Germany. Interim data from the phase 2 clinical trial with blinatumomab in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) were chosen for an oral presentation, while an update from the phase 1 trial with blinatumomab in patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) will be presented in a poster and include additional data on the durability of responses last presented at the American Society of Hematology meeting in December 2008 and efficacy data from additional patients.

Micromet also announced a poster presentation(3) for adecatumumab at the 45th annual meeting of ASCO taking place from May 29 - June 2 in Orlando, Florida. The new data will include an update of the data presented at the European Society of Oncology (ESMO) meeting in October of 2008.

(1) Topp et al, (2009) Blinatumomab (anti-CD19 BiTE(R)) for targeted therapy of minimal residual disease (MRD) in patients with B precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL): Update of an ongoing phase II study. 14th Congress of EHA (2009), abstract number 482; oral presentation on June 6 in Hall 15.2 at 8:15 AM.

(2) Klinger, et al. (2009) Pharmacodynamic analyses of peripheral blood from relapsed B-NHL patients treated with anti-CD19/-CD3 bispecific BiTE(R) antibody blinatumomab. 14th Congress of EHA (2009), abstract number 430; to be presented in poster presentation on June 5, 2009, 5:45 PM.

Blinatumomab abstracts can be accessed at http://www.ehaweb.org/.

(3) Sebastian et al. (2009). Safety and antitumor activity of 3-weekly anti-EpCAM antibody adecatumumab (MT201) in combination with docetaxel for patients with metastatic breast cancer: Results of a multicenter phase Ib trial. ASCO Annual Meeting 2009, abstract no. 1009; to be presented in Breast Cancer-Metastatic poster discussion from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM.

  Adecatumumab abstracts can be accessed at http://www.asco.org/.

  About Micromet



Micromet, Inc. (http://www.micromet-inc.com/) is a biopharmaceutical company with offices in Bethesda, MD and Munich, Germany. The Company is focused on developing novel, proprietary antibodies for the treatment of cancer, inflammation and autoimmune diseases. The Company's novel antibody technology is based on its proprietary BiTE(R) antibody platform, representing a new class of antibodies that specifically activate T cells from the patient's own immune system to eliminate cancer cells or other disease related cells. Four of the Company's antibodies are currently in clinical trials, with the remainder of its product pipeline in preclinical development. The Company's lead program is a BiTE antibody known as blinatumomab, or MT103. It is in a phase 2 clinical trial for the treatment of patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and a phase 1 clinical trial for the treatment of patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Micromet's second BiTE antibody in clinical development is MT110, which targets the epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM). The Company owns all rights to MT110, which is currently in a phase 1 clinical trial for the treatment of patients with solid tumors. The Company's third clinical stage antibody is adecatumumab, also known as MT201, a traditional human monoclonal antibody that targets EpCAM-expressing solid tumors. Micromet is developing adecatumumab in collaboration with Merck Serono in a phase 1b clinical trial evaluating adecatumumab in combination with docetaxel for the treatment of patients with metastatic breast cancer. Micromet licensed a fourth clinical stage antibody, MT293, to TRACON Pharmaceuticals, Inc. MT293 is being developed in a phase 1 clinical trial for the treatment of patients with cancer. The Company's preclinical programs include MT203 being developed in collaboration with Nycomed. MT203 is a traditional human antibody neutralizing the activity of granulocyte/macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF), which has potential applications in the treatment of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, or multiple sclerosis. Micromet has granted an exclusive option to Bayer Schering Pharma AG to license a BiTE antibody against an undisclosed solid tumor target. Additional BiTE antibodies, targeting CEA, CD33, Her2, EGFR and MCSP, respectively, are in different stages of preclinical development.

Forward-Looking Statements

This release contains certain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to be materially different from historical results or from any future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include statements regarding planned publications of results from clinical trials with blinatumomab and adecatumumab, the efficacy, safety and intended utilization of our product candidates, the conduct, timing and results of future clinical trials, and expectations of the future expansion of our product pipeline and collaborations. You are urged to consider statements that include the words "ongoing," "may," "will," "believes," "potential," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "intends," or the negative of those words or other similar words to be uncertain and forward-looking. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from any future results expressed or implied by any forward-looking statements include the risk that product candidates that appeared promising in early research, preclinical studies or clinical trials do not demonstrate safety and/or efficacy in subsequent clinical trials, the risk that encouraging results from early research, preclinical studies or clinical trials may not be confirmed upon further analysis of the detailed results of such research, preclinical study or clinical trial, the risk that additional information relating to the safety, efficacy or tolerability of our product candidates may be discovered upon further analysis of preclinical or clinical trial data, the risk that we or our collaborators will not obtain approval to market our product candidates, the risks associated with reliance on outside financing to meet capital requirements, and the risks associated with reliance on collaborators, including MedImmune, Merck Serono, TRACON and Nycomed, for the funding or conduct of further development and commercialization activities relating to our product candidates. These factors and others are more fully discussed in Micromet's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2009, filed with the SEC on May 11, 2009, as well as other filings by the company with the SEC.

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