“We are pleased that BXCL701 in combination with pembrolizumab has demonstrated an encouraging response rate in this difficult-to-treat cancer with no currently approved FDA therapies,” said Vincent J. O’Neill, M.D., Chief R&D Officer, OnkosXcel Therapeutics, a wholly owned subsidiary of BioXcel Therapeutics. “BXCL701’s promising profile as an oral innate immune activator with a large safety dataset and novel mechanism of action further supports OnkosXcel’s pipeline and use of BioXcel’s AI platform, and reinforces our confidence in BXCL701’s potential to enable checkpoint inhibitor therapy in traditionally cold cancers.”
