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VACCIBODY UPDATES ON CANCER NEOANTIGEN PHASE I/IIA CLINICAL TRIAL: FIRST 10 PATIENTS ENROLLED, AND VACCINATIONS STARTED.

Vaccibody AS, a clinical stage immunotherapy company focused on developing personalized neoantigen cancer vaccines to target solid tumors, today announces that the first 10 patients have been enrolled in its phase I/IIa cancer neoantigen vaccine trial and that vaccinations with VB10.NEO have started. The trial is planned to enroll up to 40 patients with locally advanced or metastatic melanoma, non-small cell lung carcinoma, clear renal cell carcinoma as well as urothelial cancer or squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. The VB10.NEO vaccine is given in combination with standard of care checkpoint inhibitors.

Mads Axelsen, MD, Chief Medical Officer in Vaccibody, said “We are very pleased with the enrolment in the neoantigen trial and with the interest we are experiencing from clinical investigator and from patients. To that end I would like to thank the experienced cancer experts and investigators in this trial namely Prof. Jürgen Krauss from Heidelberg, Prof. Angela Krackhardt from Munich and Prof. Elke Jäger from Frankfurt. Together with their dedicated teams they are doing an outstanding job with the neoantigen trial”

 

About Vaccibody AS

Vaccibody is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery and development of novel immunotherapies. The company is a leader in the rapidly developing field of individualized cancer neoantigen vaccines and is using the Vaccibody technology to generate best-in-class therapeutics to treat cancers with a high unmet medical need. A phase I/IIa neoantigen clinical trial is enrolling patients with locally advanced or metastatic melanoma, non-small cell lung carcinoma, clear renal cell carcinoma as well as urothelial cancer or squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.  Vaccibody’s front runner program (VB10.16) is a therapeutic DNA vaccine against HPV16 induced pre-malignancies and malignancies. The first-in-human study (phase I/IIa), which is now fully enrolled, evaluates the safety and immunogenicity of VB10.16 in women with high grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (HSIL; CIN 2/3).

 

Contact:

Martin Bonde CEO

+45 2025 3560

mbonde@vaccibody.com

 

SOURCE

Vaccibody AS

Oslo Research Park

Gaustadalléen 21

0349 Oslo, Norway

 

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