Keio University

Start of Investigator-Initiated Phase I (First-in-Human) Trial of a Nucleic Acid Drug Candidate Targeting PRDM14 in Patients with Breast Cancer

Publish: September 02, 2020
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2020/09/02

The Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research

The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo

Sapporo Medical University

Keio University Hospital

Innovation Center of NanoMedicine, Kawasaki Institute of Industrial Promotion

NanoCarrier Co., Ltd.

Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED)

On September 2, 2020, the Cancer Institute Hospital of the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research (hereafter "CIH") began an investigator-initiated clinical trial (First-in-Human trial) using the siRNA nucleic acid drug candidate for breast cancer (SRN-14/GL2-800). This drug has been jointly developed with The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo; Sapporo Medical University; the Innovation Center of NanoMedicine, Kawasaki Institute of Industrial Promotion (hereafter "iCONM"); Keio University Hospital; and NanoCarrier Co., Ltd. (AccuRna, Inc. at the time of development).

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