First Subject Dosed for a Ph 2 Clinical Trial of HLX43
“Recently, Shanghai Henlius Biotech, Inc. announced that the first subject has been dosed for a phase 2 clinical trial of HLX43 for Injection (HLX43-ESCC201), the novel Programmed Death-Ligand 1 (PD-L1)-targeting antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) that developed by the company based on the collaboration with MediLink Therapeutics, for the treatment of patients with recurrent/metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). At present, no PD-L1 targeting ADC has been approved for marketing globally, and only SGN-PDL1V from Pfizer is about to innitiate a Phase 3 clinical trial. HLX43 is the second PD-L1-targeting ADC to enter clinical trial globally.”
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