AIM ImmunoTech Inc. announced it has entered into an external sponsored collaborative clinical research agreement with Erasmus MC and AstraZeneca. Under the agreement, Erasmus MC is planning to perform an investigator-initiated clinical study, entitled “Combining anti-PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibitor durvalumab with TLR-3 agonist rintatolimod in patients with metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma for therapy effect. DURIPANC Study,” in which it will use both Study Drugs provided by AstraZeneca and AIM ImmunoTech.

Ampligen is AIM's dsRNA drug currently being developed for globally important cancers. Ampligen has shown therapeutic synergy with checkpoint inhibitors, including increasing survival rates and efficacy, in the treatment of animal tumors when used in combination with checkpoint blockade therapies. The first detection of Ampligen's synergistic potential with checkpoint blockade therapeutics was witnessed in pre-clinical mouse models of melanoma and pancreatic cancers.

Additionally, there is published data from two recent clinical studies – in triple-negative breast cancer and advanced recurrent ovarian cancer – that further support Ampligen's potential to enhance checkpoint blockade therapy efficacy.