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New Treatment for Central Nervous System Tumors Enters Phase I Clinical Trials
January 12, 2021 GMT
MINNEAPOLIS (BUSINESS WIRE) Jan 12, 2021
OX2 Therapeutics, Inc., a privately held Minneapolis company, announces today that they treated their first patient in a phase one human trial of a new treatment developed to combat recurrent high-grade brain tumors.
“This is a first-of-its kind immunotherapy that works to treat one of the most aggressive and deadly cancers today,” said Christopher Moertel, MD, OX2 Therapeutics, Inc. “Central nervous system cancers are the number one cause of cancer related mortality in children, and a major cause of morbidity and mortality in adults.”
January 7, 2021 Elizabeth Neil
Physicians and scientists at the University of Minnesota have opened a new brain cancer clinical trial and have treated their first patient. This Phase I, first-in-human trial is enrolling patients with a specific type of brain cancer, glioblastoma. The development for this innovative treatment is based on years of research from Michael Olin, PhD, and Christopher Moertel, MD, researchers in the University of Minnesota Medical School’s Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, as well as a high-grade canine clinical trial conducted by G. Elizabeth Pluhar, DVM, PhD, DACVS, in the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences. The researchers are also members of the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota.