The Finnish regulatory agency (FIMEA) has approved Kancera AB’s application to conduct a phase I study of KAND-145, the company’s second-generation fractalkine-blocking candidate drug for cancer.
Kancera AB has shown that its Fractalkine-blocking candidate drug may increase the efficacy of platinum-based chemotherapy and reduce tumor growth in animal models of ovarian cancer.
DUBLIN – Kancera AB is the latest contender to reposition a clinical-stage small molecule with an immunomodulatory mechanism as a drug candidate for COVID-19.