First patient dosed in
first-in-human study evaluating BI 4060107 in people with advanced solid tumors
Clinical development
milestone triggers a payment to AimedBio under the companies’ 2025 global
licensing agreement
SEOUL, South
Korea– AimedBio
today
announced that the first patient has been dosed in a Phase I study of BI
4060107, an investigational antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) discovered by
AimedBio and now being developed by Boehringer Ingelheim under the companies’
global collaboration and licensing agreement. The first-in-human study
(NCT07827144) is evaluating different doses of BI 4060107 in people with
advanced solid tumors, with a focus on how well the treatment is tolerated.
Despite
significant advances in cancer treatment, many people with advanced solid
tumors still lack precision treatment options. ADCs are a promising approach to
addressing this challenge, combining the specificity of an antibody with a
cancer-cell-killing payload to potentially deliver treatment more precisely to
tumor cells while limiting exposure to healthy tissue. BI 4060107 was developed
using AimedBio’s proprietary P-ADC™ platform, which takes a patient-driven
approach to identifying and validating targets for targeted cancer therapies.
“Dosing the
first patient marks an important step for BI 4060107, as the program moves from
discovery into clinical evaluation,” said Nam-Gu Her, CEO of AimedBio. “BI
4060107 represents another potential first-in-class ADC discovered by AimedBio
to enter clinical development. We look forward to its continued development for
patients facing difficult-to-treat cancers.”
AimedBio and
Boehringer Ingelheim entered into a global collaboration and licensing
agreement in October 2025 for BI 4060107. The investigational compound targets
a tumor-selective marker that is highly expressed across a broad spectrum of
cancers, minimally present in normal tissues and associated with tumor growth,
metastasis and resistance to therapy.
“Starting
clinical development is an important step toward our goal of bringing BI
4060107 to people with cancer,” said Vittoria Zinzalla, Global Head of
Experimental Medicine at Boehringer Ingelheim. “It reflects our broader
ambition in oncology to create unprecedented impact for people facing cancer by
pioneering novel approaches and advancing first-in-class treatments.”
With
the achievement of this development milestone, AimedBio is eligible to receive
a milestone payment from Boehringer Ingelheim under the agreement. Under the
collaboration and license agreement, AimedBio is eligible to receive up to $991
million in upfront, development and regulatory, and commercial milestone payments,
plus royalties on net sales. The amount of the payment associated with this
milestone is not being disclosed.