VAXIMM is primarily focused on developing active immunotherapies for patients suffering from cancer. The company’s initial product candidate VXM01 is targeting the tumor vasculature, which is essential for tumors to grow beyond microscopic size. VAXIMM was formed in 2008 as a joint venture of BB Biotech Ventures and Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.
VAXIMM AG, a Swiss/German biotech company focused on developing oral T-cell immunotherapies, today announced that the Company's lead product candidate, VXM01, has received orphan designation from the European Commission and from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of glioma, a difficult-to-treat form of brain cancer. Orphan designation is designed to encourage the development of drugs to treat rare diseases and conditions and provides companies with certain incentives, including periods of market exclusivity upon approval, as well as user fee reductions or exemptions. The designation by the European Commission is for the treatment of glioma and by the US FDA for the treatment of malignant glioma.
Results include one objective response, three patients with stable disease
Basel (Switzerland) and Mannheim (Germany), May 9, 2017 – VAXIMM AG, a Swiss/German biotech company focused on developing oral T-cell immunotherapies, today announced that it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company which in the US and Canada operates as EMD Serono, and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) to evaluate avelumab*, a human anti-PD-L1 antibody, in combination with VAXIMM’s VXM01. VXM01 is an investigational oral T-cell immunotherapy designed to activate T-cells to attack the tumor vasculature, and, in several tumor types, attack cancer cells directly. Under the terms of the agreement, VAXIMM will be responsible for conducting two open-label Phase I/II trials – one in glioblastoma and one in metastatic colorectal cancer.
Basel (Switzerland) and Mannheim (Germany), March 30, 2017 - VAXIMM AG, a Swiss/German biotech company focused on developing oral T-cell immunotherapies, today announced that preclinical data for three of its programs will be presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2017 being held in Washington, DC, USA, April 1-5.
