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IO Biotech’s vaccine misses on mPFS in phase III advanced melanoma trial

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Cylembio (imsapepimut and etimupepimut, adjuvanted), an off-the-shelf therapeutic cancer vaccine, plus pembrolizumab narrowly missed on its primary endpoint of progression free survival for patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma, according to phase III trial results. 

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