Benzinga | Jan 11, 2022 07:31AM EST

Phio Pharmaceuticals Announces French Regulatory Clearance of Clinical Trial for PH-762 to Treat Melanoma

Phio Pharmaceuticals Corp. (NASDAQ:PHIO), a biotechnology company developing the next generation of immuno-oncology therapeutics based on its proprietary self-delivering RNAi (INTASYL(tm)) therapeutic platform, today announced that it has received regulatory clearance to start a clinical trial with its lead product candidate, PH-762. The Company was granted the clinical trial authorization (CTA) by the French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products (ANSM - L'Agence nationale de s?curit? du m?dicament et des produits de sant?) to proceed with a first-in-human clinical trial for PH-762 to treat patients with melanoma at the Gustave Roussy Institute. The Company expects to dose the first patient in the first quarter of 2022.