“Part A of the DeFianCe study enrolled an aggressive heterogenous population of second-line CRC patients representative of the second-line population that we see in the clinic who have poor outcomes on standard of care drugs and are in need of new therapies,” said Zev Wainberg, MD, Professor Medicine at UCLA and co-director of the UCLA GI Oncology Program. “Exceeding a 20% overall response rate with a high disease control rate in second-line CRC patients is a clinically meaningful efficacy signal and worthy of further exploration.”