BerGenBio gets funding for combo trial in advanced lung cancer

26 June 2017

Norwegian clinical-stage biotech firm BerGenBio has been awarded a 24 million Norwegian kroner ($2.85 million) grant from Innovasjon Norge to support the clinical development of its BGB324 in combination with US pharma giant Merck & Co’s (NYSE: MRK) Keytruda (pembrolizumab) in patients with advanced lung cancer.

BerGenBio will sponsor a Phase II study multicenter study of BGB324, which since 2014 has US Food and Drug Administration orphan states for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), in combination with Keytruda in patients with previously treated unresectable adenocarcinoma of the lung.

In March this year, BerGenBio entered into a collaborative agreement with Merck focused on the clinical evaluation of BGB324 with Keytruda in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).

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