The latest milestone advances the company’s second clinical-stage therapeutic candidate and marks the first clinical programme built using its proprietary Au-HALO™ liver-targeting delivery technology and siRNA platform.
The study compared the drug against bendamustine plus rituximab (BR) in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) who had not received prior treatment and did not have 17p deletions.
Macaque monkeys serve as the most common species for drug testing because they share considerable physiological similarities with humans.
GEN1160 now joins GEN1107 on Genmab’s list of discontinued assets from the April 2024 ProfoundBio acquisition.