Just one year after Mersana Therapeutics Inc. debuted on the public markets, the company's first clinical trial has been put on a partial clinical hold by the US FDA because of safety concerns. The company announced the partial hold July 19 after a cancer patient in the Phase I dose-escalation trial died.
The trial is testing XMT-1522, an antibody-drug conjugate targeting HER2-expressing tumors built using Mersana's Dolaflexin platform, which links a Fleximer...







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