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Saturday, July 2, 2016

Bristol-Myers Squibb and PsiOxus Therapeutics Announce Immuno-Oncology Clinical Collaboration to Evaluate the Combination of Opdivo and Enadenotucirev | BMS Newsroom

NEW YORK & OXFORD, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bristol-Myers Squibb Company(NYSE: BMY) and PsiOxus Therapeutics, Ltd. (PsiOxus) today announced an exclusive clinical collaboration agreement to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and preliminary efficacy of PsiOxus’ enadenotucirev, a systemically administered oncolytic adenovirus therapeutic, in combination with Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Immuno-Oncology (I-O) agentOpdivo (nivolumab) to treat a range of tumor types in late-stage cancer patients.

Enadenotucirev is designed to have immune stimulating effects while Opdivo is designed to alleviate immune suppression. The clinical collaboration will support Phase 1 studies to determine whether combining these two agents can significantly improve the proportion of patients achieving objective tumor responses, the extent of tumor shrinkage, and/or the durability of responses.


Bristol-Myers Squibb and PsiOxus Therapeutics Announce Immuno-Oncology Clinical Collaboration to Evaluate the Combination of Opdivo and Enadenotucirev | BMS Newsroom

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