Via: OncoMed
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 17, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:OMED), a clinical-stage company developing novel anti-cancer stem cell and immuno-oncology therapeutics, today announced dosing of the first patient in its Phase 1b clinical trial of OncoMed's investigational agent demcizumab (anti-DLL4, OMP-21M18), with Merck's anti-Programmed Cell Death 1 (PD1) therapy pembrolizumab (KEYTRUDA®). The combination of these agents may act as a double blockade for cancer-induced immune suppression with potential application to a number of solid tumor cancers.
The Phase 1b clinical trial is enrolling patients with advanced or metastatic solid tumors to receive escalating dose cohorts of demcizumab plus an approved dose of pembrolizumab. Once an optimal combination dose is established, three expansion study cohorts will be enrolled in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), anti-PD1 refractory solid tumors and castrate-resistant prostate cancer.
The primary objective of the trial is to determine the safety and tolerability of the demcizumab-pembrolizumab combination. The trial will also look at comparative pharmacokinetic profiles, incidence of antibodies against demcizumab or pembrolizumab, biomarker and immunological response, response rates and survival outcome in patients with advanced solid tumors, NSCLC, castrate-resistant prostate cancer and anti-PD1 antibody refractory cancers.
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