New cancer drug IPH4502 enters first human tests

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Main Inclusion Criteria: * Histologically confirmed, unresectable, locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors that are known to express Nectin-4 * Prior systemic treatment for locally advanced or metastatic disease, yet no therapy with demonstrated clinical benefit for the tumor type is available. * Measurable disease according to RECIST 1.1. * Archival tumor tissue obtained within 4 months of screening and since the last anticancer therapy prior to the study or agree to undergo a tumor biopsy at baseline. * Adequate organ function and hematological function. Main Exclusion Criteria: * Known or suspected brain metastases. * Participants with an active infection, Any other infection requiring systemic treatment or latent infection. * Participants with clinically significant comorbidity(s). * History of treatment for, or suspicion or confirmed interstitial lung disease (ILD) at baseline. * Condition being treated with systemic corticosteroids or immunosuppressive therapy during IPH4502 treatment. * Thromboembolic event requiring anticoagulation therapy ≤14 days prior to the first dose of IPH4502. * Clinically significant cardiovascular disease and/or cardiac repolarization abnormality. * Participants with symptomatic heart failure, Acute coronary syndromes * Participant is receiving or has received anticancer therapy prior to enrolment that may have impact on the assessment of IPH4502. * Major surgery ≤28 days and minor surgery ≤7 days prior to first dose of IPH4502 or 6 months for coronary artery bypass surgery. * Concomitant medications or vaccines : Live-attenuated vaccines ≤ 6 weeks prior to first dose of IPH4502; systemic corticosteroids or other immunosuppressive agents within 14 days prior to the first dose of IPH4502; systemic use of moderate or strong CYP 3A4 inhibitors; systemic use of moderate or strong CYP 3A4 inducers.