IND Submission to US FDA for Pilot Study of Pidnarulex Pharmacodynamics in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors sponsored by NCI
“Senhwa Biosciences, a drug development company focusing on first-in-class therapeutics for oncology, rare diseases, and infectious diseases, today announced that an Investigational New Drug (IND) application for Pidnarulex has been submitted to the U.S. FDA by the NCI. Senhwa’ investigational drug, Pidnarulex (CX-5461), has been selected as an experimental drug in the NExT (NCI Experimental Therapeutics) cancer program, sponsored by the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis (DCTD), National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), for a five-year period. This drug will be used in a pharmacodynamic (PD) pilot study involving patients with advanced solid tumors.”
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