MELEMA Pharma GmbH, a private biopharmaceutical company, is focusing on the development of immunotherapeutics having the potential to activate the patient’s own immune system. A substantial medical challenge for the company is the immuno-oncology. The compounds under development are mainly based on natural compounds optimised by modern Gene Technological Procedures.
The most advanced product candidate in the MELEMA pipeline is aviscumine (ME-503). ME-503 is a novel drug with both cytolytic/cytostatic and immunotherapeutic properties. Further clinical studies are currently being prepared for various tumor entities.
MELEMA is a lean company in the “pharmaceutical” biotech industry, which will carry out the necessary risky development steps up to clinical phase III together with experienced partners from science and industry (“incubator function”) and then out-license the particular development project.