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InxMed Announces Dosing of First Patient in a Phase Ib Trial of IN10018 as Monotherapy and Combination Therapy in Patients with Uveal Melanoma and NRAS mutant Metastatic Melanoma in the United States

Source: Cision PR Newswire, March 2020

SHANGHAI, March 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — InxMed (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (“InxMed" or “Company"), a clinical stage biotech company dedicated to developing innovative, individualized medicines with international impact, announced today that the company has dosed first patient in its Phase Ib clinical trial of IN10018 as monotherapy and in combination with MEKi in the patients either with metastatic uveal melanoma or NRAS mutant metastatic melanoma at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, United States. A few days ago, InxMed also received the approval from Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) and the acknowledgement from Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia for the same protocol. IN10018 is an orally delivered proprietary focal adhesion kinase (FAK) inhibitor being developed for the treatment or various types of cancer.

This open label phase Ib trial will include 6 study sites in the United States and 3 study sites in Australia, and evaluate the safety, tolerability, PK and antitumor activities of IN10018 as monotherapy and in combination with Roche’s MEK inhibitor Cobimetinib in subjects with metastatic uveal melanoma and NRAS mutant metastatic melanoma.

Uveal melanoma (UM) is the most common type of intraocular cancer with a dismal prognosis once it metastasizes. There is no approved medicine for metastatic uveal melanoma. NRAS mutation, occurring in approximately 15-20% of melanoma patients, is the second most common oncogenic driver mutation in advanced melanoma without targeted treatment being approved yet. With solid underling disease biology, IN10018 has shown anti-tumor effect against both uveal melanoma and NRAS-mutant metastatic melanoma preclinically and synergistic efficacy between IN10018 and MEK inhibitor has been observed in numbers of preclinical studies.

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