NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC) today announced that clinical trial investigator Eric S. Christenson, M.D., Assistant Professor of Oncology at Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, will present a poster on clinical data from the Phase 1b portion of a study evaluating NC410 in combination with pembrolizumab at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting from May 31 – June 4 in Chicago.
BELTSVILLE, Md., April 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing novel, first-in-class and best-in-class therapies to treat cancer, today announced that clinical trial investigator Eric S. Christenson, M.D., Assistant Professor of Oncology at Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, will present a poster on clinical data from the Phase 1b portion of a study evaluating NC410 in combination with pembrolizumab at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting from May 31 – June 4 in Chicago.
Presentation details:
Title: A phase 1b study of NC410 in combination with pembrolizumab in immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) naïve, and refractory microsatellite stable (MSS)/microsatellite instability-low (MSI-L) colorectal cancer (CRC) and ovarian cancer
Date and Time: June 1, 2024, 9:00 am-12:00 pm CT
Session: Poster Session: Developmental Therapeutics—Immunotherapy
Abstract Number: 2538
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