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Lenzilumab is the first and only anti-human GM-CSF treatment to be tested in the NIH ACTIV-5/BET-B clinical trial. Lenzilumab is being investigated in combination with remdesivir and will be compared with remdesivir alone. Two hundred hospitalized patients 18 years old and greater who need medical care for COVID-19 infection will be enrolled and randomized, half of whom will receive lenzilumab. The evaluation of lenzilumab in this Phase 2 trial began in October 2020 and is expected to be completed in the second half of 2021. Humanigen is also exploring the effectiveness of its GM-CSF neutralization technologies (either through the use of lenzilumab as a neutralizing antibody or through GM-CSF gene knockout) in combination with other CAR-T, bispecific or natural killer (NK) T-cell-engaging immunotherapy treatments to break the efficacy/toxicity linkage, including to prevent and/or treat Graft versus Host Disease (GvHD) in patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT).