Genome & Company Signs a Clinical Trial Agreement with Merck KGaA and Pfizer to Evaluate the Combination Therapy

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• Genome & Company enters into a clinical trial and supply agreement with Merck KGaA and Pfizer to evaluate the safety, tolerability, biological and clinical activities of GEN-001 + Bavencio (avelumab) for multiple cancer indications
• Genome & Company will sponsor the study while Merck KGaA will supply avelumab in P-I/Ib study which is expected to be initiated in 2020 in the US. Both parties will have access to the clinical data
•  GEN-001 is an oral microbiome therapy developed to have immune-modulating activities and has demonstrated synergistic effect with an immune checkpoint inhibitor to suppress the growth of both immune checkpoint inhibitor sensitive and resistant tumor models

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