Immune Design Corp.IMDZ announced that it has commenced a randomized phase II study on its "prime boost" immunotherapy candidate, CMB305, in combination with Genentech's (a subgroup of Roche Holding AG RHHBY ) cancer immunotherapy candidate, atezolizumab, for the treatment of patients with soft tissue sarcoma.
According to the National Cancer Institute, almost 12,000 people are expected to be diagnosed with soft tissue sarcoma in 2015 with about 4,870 people expected to die of the disease in 2015.
We note that G100 and LV305, Immune Design's other pipeline candidates, are being developed in collaboration with Merck & Co. Inc.'s MRK Keytruda in patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and melanoma, respectively. The company also completed enrollment for a phase I study on G100 in patients with Merkel cell carcinoma.
The company is planning to present pre-clinical data on G100 at the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology in early December.
Meanwhile, late last month, Immune Design announced that one of its collaboration partners, MedImmune, started a phase II study on MEDI7510 for the prevention of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). We note that MEDI7510 comprises MedImmune's RSV sF antigen plus GLA, a synthetic molecule licensed from Immune Design's GLAAS discovery platform.
MedImmune has an exclusive license to use the GLAAS platform to develop and commercialize vaccines for two different infectious disease indications including RSV.
Immune Design carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). A better-ranked stock in the health care sector is Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated CORT , carrying Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy).
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