WESTPORT, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Intensity Therapeutics, Inc. (“Intensity”), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing proprietary, intratumoral products to kill tumors and increase immune system recognition of cancers, today announced two poster presentations to be made at the 2021 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting being held virtually from June 4 to 8.

Title: A Phase 1/2 Study of Intratumoral INT230-6 Alone (IT-01) or in Combination with Pembrolizumab [KEYNOTE-A10] in Adult Subjects with Locally Advanced, Unresectable and Metastatic Solid Tumors Refractory to Therapy
Authors: El-Khoueiry, A.B., et al.
Session: Developmental Therapeutics - Immunotherapy
Session type: Poster Session
Abstract: 2592

Title: Early Results of Intratumoral INT230-6 Alone or in Combination with Ipilimumab in Subjects with Advanced Sarcomas
Authors: Ingham, M., et al.
Session: Sarcoma
Session type: Poster Session
Abstract: 11557

“INT230-6 is a novel, proprietary, locally-delivered anti-cancer product candidate that has shown very promising clinical results as monotherapy in a basket study of patients with advanced and refractory disease,” said Lewis H. Bender, President and CEO of Intensity Therapeutics. “We are excited that ASCO has offered us the opportunity to share our encouraging results in two presentations. The data to be reported in our first poster will update our safety and efficacy results for patients receiving INT230-6 alone or in combination with pembrolizumab. The second presentation details preliminary results of INT230-6 with or without ipilimumab to treat sarcomas, a complex cancer type with high unmet medical need.”

About INT230-6

INT230-6, Intensity’s lead proprietary investigational product candidate, is designed for direct intratumoral injection. INT230-6 was discovered using Intensity’s proprietary DfuseRx℠ technology platform. The drug is composed of two proven, potent anti-cancer agents, cisplatin and vinblastine, and a penetration enhancer molecule that helps disperse the drugs throughout tumors for diffusion into cancer cells.

About Intensity Therapeutics’ Clinical Studies

INT230-6 is currently being evaluated in several Phase 2 cohorts (NCT03058289) in patients with various advanced solid tumors as part of Study IT-01. In 2019, the Company signed a clinical collaboration agreement with Merck Sharpe & Dohme (Merck) to evaluate the combination of INT230-6, Intensity’s lead product candidate, and KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab), Merck’s anti-PD-1 (programmed death receptor-1) therapy, in patients with advanced pancreatic, colon, squamous cell and bile duct malignancies. In 2020, the Company executed a clinical collaboration agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company to evaluate the combination INT230-6, with Bristol Myers Squibb’s anti-CTLA-4 antibody, Yervoy® (ipilimumab), in patients with advanced liver, breast and sarcoma cancers. In 2021, the Company executed agreements with the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and the Ontario Institute of Cancer Research to study INT230-6 in a randomized, controlled neoadjuvant phase 2 study in women with early stage breast cancer (the INVINCIBLE study) (NCT04781725).

About Intensity Therapeutics

Intensity Therapeutics, Inc. is a privately held, clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering a new immune-based approach to treat solid tumor cancers. Intensity leverages its DfuseRx℠ technology platform to create new, proprietary drug formulations that following direct injection, rapidly disperse throughout a tumor and diffuse therapeutic agents into cancer cells. Intensity’s product candidates have the potential to induce an adaptive immune response that not only attacks the injected tumor, but also non-injected tumors. The Company executed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Vaccine Branch in 2014 and has partnerships with Merck and Bristol Myers Squibb. For more information, please visit www.intensitytherapeutics.com and follow us on Twitter @IntensityInc.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding Intensity Therapeutics’ plans, future operations and objectives. Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual performance or achievements to be materially different from those currently anticipated. These forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements about the initiation and timing of future clinical trials.

YERVOY® is a registered trademark of Bristol Myers Squibb.

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