Chipscreen Biosciences Announces a Collaboration with Innovent to Evaluate Chidamide and the Combination of Sintilimab, Anti-VEGF Monoclonal Antibody IBI305 in Colorectal Cancer patients

  • 2019.03.29
  • source:PR Newswire

SHENZHEN, China, Feb. 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Chipscreen Biosciences, a leading integrated Chinese biotech company specialized in discovery and development of novel small molecule pharmaceuticals with a primary focus in oncology, metabolic disease, and autoimmune diseases, announce the signing of a collaboration agreement with Innovent Biologics, Inc. (Innovent) to evaluate the safety and tolerability of Chipscreen's Chidamide and Innovent's Sintilimab in combination with an anti-VEGF monoclonal antibody IBI305 in patients with advanced colorectal carcinoma.


Under the terms of the agreement, Chipscreen Biosciences and Innovent will jointly explore potential applications of this combination in colorectal carcinoma with unmet medical needs through development efforts to establish the safety and efficacy in China.


"There are significant unmet medical needs for patients with advanced colorectal carcinoma, and the combination treatment with different targeted therapy may prove to be an important solution", said Chipscreen's executive vice president, Dr. Zhiqiang Ning. "We look forward to partnering with Innovent to explore a potential clinical application with the combination regimen of immune check-point inhibitor, angiogenesis inhibitor and epigenetic modulator in this indication."


"Epigenetic aberrations appear to be one of the major causes of resistance to immune-oncological therapies. Chidamide, a novel epigenetic modulating agent discovered in China, seems to reverse patient resistance to immune therapy in early clinical studies," said Innovent's Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Kerry Blanchard. "We are pleased to be partnering with Chipscreen Biosciences to explore combination therapy with Sintilimab, IBI305, and Chidamide in colorectal carcinoma. We hope this collaboration will bring clinical benefits to patients in need."



About IBI305

Innovent's IBI305 is a biosimilar of bevacizumab, a recombinant humanized anti-VEGF monoclonal antibody for injection. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is an important factor in angiogenesis that is highly expressed by the endothelial cells in most human tumors. An anti-VEGF antibody binds VEGF selectively with high affinity and blocks its binding to VEGF receptors on the surface of vascular endothelial cells, thereby inhibiting signaling pathways such as PI3K-Akt/PKB and Ras-Raf-MEK-ERK. Bevacizumab ultimately produces anti-tumor effects by inhibiting the growth, proliferation and migration of vascular endothelial cells, blocking angiogenesis, reducing vascular permeability, blocking the blood supply to tumor tissues,  inhibiting the proliferation and metastasis of tumor cells and inducing apoptosis in tumor cells. 


About Chipscreen Biosciences

In 2001, Chipscreen Biosciences was founded in Shenzhen, specializing in the research and development of original small molecule drugs. With the self-created "integrated drug discovery and early evaluation platform based on chemical genetics" as its core competitiveness, Chipscreen Biosciences has now become one of China's leading innovative drug enterprises, forming a modern biomedicine group company in Shenzhen, as its headquarters / research and development center / GMP production base, Chengdu, as a regional headquarter / research and development center / GMP production base, Beijing clinical research center and Shanghai commercial center. At present, the company has developed a number of original new drug product lines for tumors, diabetes, and endocrine and autoimmune diseases. In December 2014, the original anti-tumor new drug Chidamide was approved by the China Food and Drug Administration for listing