Neon Lights Up First PD-1 Combo Study

The recent biotechnology startup Neon Therapeutics has quickly put its $55m Series A venture capital to work with plans to begin a Phase Ib clinical trial in 2016 for the company's lead immunotherapeutic candidate in combination with the Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. immuno-oncology star Opdivo (nivolumab).

The recent biotechnology startup Neon Therapeutics has quickly put its $55m Series A venture capital to work with plans to begin a Phase Ib clinical trial in 2016 for the company's lead immunotherapeutic candidate in combination with the Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. immuno-oncology star Opdivo (nivolumab).

The Phase Ib trial will evaluate Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Neon's neoantigen-targeting therapeutic vaccine NEO-PV-01 plus the Bristol-Myers programmed cell death-1 (PD-1)...

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