ChemomAb announced dosing of the first patient in a Phase 1b repeated dose clinical trial with CM-101 in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) patients. The company’s lead investigational drug candidate, CM-101, is targeting the chemokine CCL24, an important driver of fibrotic processes.
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The Phase 1b clinical trial is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study designed to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in people with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Patients will be randomized to receive doses of CM-101 or placebo for 12 weeks followed by a recovery phase.
“The initiation of this clinical trial represents an important step forward in the company’s goal to evaluate the potential of CM-101 to interfere with the progression of NASH and its precursor, NAFLD,” said Adi Mor, CEO of ChemomAb. “The understanding that CCL24 plays a pivotal role in fibrotic and inflammatory diseases paves the way for assessing CM-101, a first-in-class CCL24 neutralizing antibody, in several unmet need fibrotic indications, NASH being one of them. We are eager to advance the clinical program with CM-101 in NASH as well as in the orphan indications primary sclerosing cholangitis and systemic sclerosis.”