The collaboration seeks to evaluate the combination of VBI's cancer vaccine immunotherapeutic candidate, VBI-1901, and Agenus' monoclonal antibody, balstilimab, in patients who had tumor removal and radiotherapy, the companies said.
VBI-1901 is currently in a mid-stage study, where it showed "encouraging" tumor responses and improvement in overall survival compared with historical controls, the companies said.
Under the terms of the collaboration, VBI will sponsor the study and will be responsible for the execution of the trial, while Agenus will supply balstilimab.
Financial terms of the collaboration were not disclosed.
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