Expanded access, sometimes also referred to as “compassionate use,” is a potential alternative for patients to receive investigational treatments outside of a clinical trial. According to FDA, expanded access may be applicable when all the following apply:
- Patients have a serious or immediately life-threatening disease or condition;
- There is no comparable or satisfactory alternative therapy to diagnose, monitor, or treat the disease or condition;
- Patient enrollment in a clinical trial is not possible;
- Potential patient benefit justifies the potential risks of treatment; and
- Providing the investigational medical product will not interfere with investigational trials that could support a medical product’s development or marketing approval for the treatment indication.
At this time, expanded access is not available for any of our product candidate programs. We aim to provide investigational treatments when they have the greatest potential to benefit patients. Our lead product candidates atebimetinib (IMM-1-104) and envometinib (IMM-6-415) are currently still in development, and clinical trials are ongoing to understand, among other things, the potential safety and efficacy of these investigational treatments. We believe that participation in a clinical trial is currently the most appropriate way for a patient to receive one of our product candidates in development. Clinical trials for our programs are provided above, and here hyperlinked to clinicaltrials.gov for more information. We will periodically assess the potential appropriateness of expanded access in the future and may revise our policy as the development of our product candidate programs progresses.
If you have additional questions regarding expanded access or participation in a clinical trial, please speak with your physician or contact clinicaltrials@immuneering.com.