Context Therapeutics Announces FDA Clearance of IND Application for a Phase 1 Clinical Trial of CTIM-76
May 02 2024 - 7:31AM
Context Therapeutics Inc. (“Context” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq:
CNTX), a biopharmaceutical company advancing medicines for solid
tumors, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(“FDA”) has cleared its Investigational New Drug (“IND”)
application for CTIM-76, a Claudin 6 (“CLDN6”) x CD3 T cell
engaging bispecific antibody. The IND supports the initiation of a
Phase 1 dose escalation and expansion clinical trial of CTIM-76 in
patients with CLDN6-positive gynecologic and testicular cancers.
The Company anticipates the enrollment of the first patient in the
dose escalation portion of its clinical trial in mid-2024.
“The FDA’s clearance of our IND marks an important achievement
for Context, allowing us to proceed with the Phase 1 clinical
program for this potentially best-in-class CLDN6-targeting
therapy,” said Martin Lehr, CEO of Context. “We look forward to the
expected dosing of the first patient with CTIM-76 in the coming
months, and we believe the Company is well-positioned to achieve
key program milestones.”
The Phase 1 clinical trial is expected to be an open-label, dose
escalation and expansion study to evaluate the safety and efficacy
of CTIM-76 in subjects with CLDN6-positive advanced or metastatic
ovarian, endometrial, and testicular cancer. The dose escalation
and dose expansion portions of the trial are expected to evaluate
safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics as well as anti-tumor
activity by overall response rate, duration of response, and
disease control rate. The study is expected to enroll up to 70
patients.
About CTIM-76CTIM-76 is a CLDN6 x CD3 T cell
engaging bispecific antibody. CLDN6 is enriched in a wide range of
solid tumors, including ovarian, endometrial, lung, gastric, and
testicular. Preclinical research suggests the potential for
convenient dosing with low immunogenicity risk and scalable
manufacturing to address the significant number of patients who are
potentially eligible for CTIM-76 therapy.
About Context Therapeutics®Context Therapeutics
Inc. (Nasdaq: CNTX) is a biopharmaceutical company advancing
medicines for solid tumors. Context’s clinical stage product
candidate, CTIM-76, is a selective CLDN6 x CD3 bispecific antibody
for CLDN6-positive tumors. CLDN6 is a tight junction membrane
protein target expressed in multiple solid tumors, including
ovarian, endometrial, testicular, and lung, and absent from or
expressed at low levels in healthy adult tissues. Context is
headquartered in Philadelphia. For more information, please visit
www.contexttherapeutics.com or follow the Company on X
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Forward-looking StatementsThis press release
contains “forward-looking statements” that involve substantial
risks and uncertainties for purposes of the safe harbor provided by
the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any
statements, other than statements of historical fact, included in
this press release regarding strategy, future operations,
prospects, plans and objectives of management, including words such
as “may,” “will,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “look forward,” “plan,”
“intend,” and similar expressions (as well as other words or
expressions referencing future events, conditions, or
circumstances) are forward-looking statements. These include,
without limitation, statements regarding (i) our expectation to
enroll the first patient in a Phase 1 clinical trial for CTIM-76 in
mid-2024, (ii) our expectation regarding the trial design,
treatment indications, and patient size of our Phase 1 CTIM-76
trial, (iii) our belief that we can achieve key program milestones,
(iv) the potential benefits, characteristics, safety and side
effect profile of CTIM-76, (v) the ability of CTIM-76 to have
benefits, characteristics, manufacturability, and a side effect
profile that is differentiated and/or better than third party
product candidates, (vi) the likelihood data will support future
development of CTIM-76, and (vii) the likelihood of obtaining
regulatory approval for CTIM-76. Forward-looking statements in this
release involve substantial risks and uncertainties that could
cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or
implied by the forward-looking statements, and we therefore cannot
assure you that our plans, intentions, expectations, or strategies
will be attained or achieved. Other factors that may cause actual
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including the section titled “Risk Factors” contained therein.
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which speak only as of the date they were made, whether as a result
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