Purple Biotech Ltd. (“Purple Biotech” or “the Company”) (NASDAQ/TASE: PPBT), a clinical-stage company developing first-in-class, effective and durable therapies that harness the power of the tumor microenvironment to overcome tumor immune evasion and drug resistance, today announced that the first patient has been dosed in the randomized part of the open label Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating CM24 in the treatment of advanced metastatic pancreatic cancer (PDAC).
The ongoing Phase 2 trial is investigating CM24, a novel, first-in-class monoclonal antibody that targets CEACAM1, which promotes tumor immune evasion. The study design compares, in a randomized fashion, treatment with CM24 combined with the PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor nivolumab and standard of care (SoC) chemotherapy vs. SoC chemotherapy in second line PDAC patients. Purple Biotech has now treated the first patient in this randomized Phase 2 study that is designed to include approximately 30 patients in the experimental cohort and approximately additional 30 patients in the control cohort. The Company has already enrolled 10 patients in the safety run-in part of the trial during which no dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs) have been observed to date.
