Athenex inks clinical collaboration deal with pharma major

19 November 2016

Privately-held US specialty oncology pharmaceutical company Athenex on Friday announced a new collaboration to conduct a Phase 1b study that will evaluate the safety and tolerability of oraxol, Athenex’ oral form of paclitaxel.

Athenex said it will evaluate oraxol in combination with pharma major Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY) Cyramza (ramucirumab), a vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptor 2 antagonist, in patients with advanced gastric (stomach) and esophageal cancer.

Patient enrollment, currently expected to start in 2017, is planned at sites in the USA and Asia. Athenex will be the sponsor of the clinical trial and Lilly will supply Cyramza. No financial terms of the collaboration have been disclosed.

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