– Phase 1b study results were published simultaneously in Nature Medicine and presented at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer 2024 –

– Encouraging data adds to the body of evidence supporting potential use of cretostimogene as a backbone bladder-sparing therapeutic for bladder cancer –

IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CG Oncology, Inc. (NASDAQ:CGON), a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing a potential backbone bladder-sparing therapeutic for patients with bladder cancer, today announced the publication in Nature Medicine of Phase 1b investigator-sponsored study results evaluating intravesical cretostimogene grenadenorepvec in combination with Bristol Myers Squibb's immune checkpoint inhibitor nivolumab, in muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC). The publication is now available online and will be in a future print edition of Nature Medicine. The results were also presented at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) 2024 by Dr. Roger Li, M.D., urologic oncologist at Moffitt Cancer Center.

This is the second publication in Nature Medicine evaluating the safety and efficacy of cretostimogene grenadenorepvec this year. In June 2024, Nature Medicine published the final results from CORE-001, a phase 2 study of cretostimogene grenadenorepvec in combination with another checkpoint inhibitor, pembrolizumab, in high-risk Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG)-unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC).