NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Galectin Therapeutics (NASDAQ: GALT) (“the Company”), the leader in developing carbohydrate-based therapeutic compounds to inhibit galectin proteins for the therapy of liver fibrosis and cancer, today announced that the first patient has been dosed in a Phase 1/2 trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of a novel treatment combination for the treatment of advanced metastatic melanoma. The trial, being conducted in collaboration with the Cancer Centre at the Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR), is evaluating Galectin Therapeutics’ carbohydrate-based galectin inhibitor compound, GM-CT-01, in combination with a Ludwig Institute peptide vaccine.
