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Flare Therapeutics and Merck Forge Clinical Trial Collaboration to Evaluate FX-909 with KEYTRUDA in Cancer Trial.

Oct 21, 2025•8 months ago

Contract Type

agreement

CambridgeBiotechnologyHealth CareTherapeutics

Description

Flare Therapeutics has announced a clinical trial collaboration and supply agreement with Merck to evaluate FX-909 in combination with KEYTRUDA® in a new cohort of their ongoing Phase 1 trial for metastatic urothelial cancer. This collaboration aims to enhance treatment options by investigating the combined effects of these therapies on cancer.

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Company

Flare Therapeutics

Location

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

About

Flare Therapeutics is a biotechnology company exclusively focused on drugging transcription factors (TFs) to fully unlock the therapeutic potential of this previously elusive target class. Flare Therapeutics' integrated discovery engine converges rich genetic, biochemical, and chemical insights to reveal druggable pockets and identify small molecule ligands capable of modulating TFs of high therapeutic potential. Flare Therapeutics' proteomic and mass spectrometry platform is powered by a proprietary library of electrophilic compounds unique to Flare Therapeutics. The team has rapidly established an emerging pipeline of programs, highlighted by FX-909, a first-in-class investigational orally bioavailable small molecule inhibitor of PPARG, a master regulator of the luminal lineage in advanced urothelial cancer that is currently in a Phase I study. For more information, please visit www.flaretx.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

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