Thursday, October 15, 2026
Source trace. Via News points to the documents behind its reporting and shows what we drew from each — so you can check any claim. How we source
Press releaseGlobeNewswire· April 17, 2026

Theriva™ Biologics Announces Upcoming Presentation of Additional Data from the VIRAGE Phase 2b Clinical Trial of VCN-01 in Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer at AACR 2026 Annual Meeting

View original at globenewswire.com
Theriva™ Biologics Announces Upcoming Presentation of Additional Data from the VIRAGE Phase 2b Clinical Trial of VCN-01 in Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer at AACR 2026 Annual Meeting - Tumor reponse, biomarker, and subgroup analyses from the VIRAGE Phase 2b clinical trial support a VCN-01 immune-mediated mode of action an…
Opening lines of the source · GlobeNewswire · short snapshot — read the full document at the original

What we drew from this source

The claims Via News extracted from this document. We point to the source; we don't replace it.

  • Theriva is planning a small study to assess whether more frequent and extended VCN-01 dosing could further improve outcomes

    60% confidence
  • It is generally assumed that only 10% of pancreatic cancer cases are resectable at presentation, whereas 30-40% of patients are diagnosed at local advanced/unresectable stage and 50-60% present with distant metastases

    60% confidence
  • The new data and analyses to be presented at the AACR meeting further reinforce our confidence in the clinical potential of VCN-01 plus gemcitabine/nab-paclitaxel chemotherapy to help metastatic PDAC patients

    60% confidence
  • The tumor response and biomarker data support an immune-mediated mode of action for VCN-01

    60% confidence
  • Tumor response, biomarker, and subgroup analyses from the VIRAGE Phase 2b clinical trial support a VCN-01 immune-mediated mode of action and demonstrate improved outcomes in VCN-01 treated patients across multiple subgroups, including patients with liver metastases

    60% confidence
  • Patients treated with VCN-01 plus gemcitabine/nab-paclitaxel experienced a significantly protracted duration of response concomitant with a later-stage prolongation of survival compared to patients treated with gemcitabine/nab-paclitaxel alone

    60% confidence
  • Theriva has achieved alignment with both the FDA and the EMA on a proposed pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial to evaluate multiple doses of VCN-01 plus gemcitabine/nab-paclitaxel in first-line metastatic PDAC patients

    60% confidence
  • VCN-01 has been administered to 142 patients to date in clinical trials of different cancers, including pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, ovarian cancer, colorectal cancer, and retinoblastoma

    60% confidence

Cited in these Via News reports

What we know · the intelligence behind this page
Live from the substrate
What we're seeing
Q4 2026 Clinical Catalyst Season: Big-Pharma Data Flow, Regulatory Milestones, and a Thin AI-Drug Fringe
October 2026 conferences (EASD, IGCS, NACFC, HFSA) are producing a dense run of late-stage readouts from Novo Nordisk, Lilly, Roche, Bayer, Vertex and Galderma. Regulatory milestones are scheduled behind them: the ivonescimab BLA PDUFA date on 2026-11-14, FDA acceptance of Roche's vamikibart BLA, and Scholar Rock's EMA resubmission. The AI-and-finance angle is peripheral. It consists of the AI-designed drug Rentosertib and QAIAx, a speculative microcap whose trial claims (the QIII pilot, anticipated 2027-01-01, and a patent update) are forecasts and filings rather than data, so they warrant skepticism.
Our read on the data ›
Signals we're tracking
EPKINLY Regulatory-Clinical Success Cascade
High probability of expanded label indications, additional combination approvals, and competitive positioning strength in follicular lymphoma market. Predicts positive commercial uptake and potential accelerated review for related indications.
Patterns we're watching ›
Where sources disagree
ING Group
Both facts record the same metric (shares_outstanding) for ING Group at the identical observation date (2025-12-31). FACT A states 2,902,437,688 shares; FACT B states 2,902 million shares (2,902,000,000). The difference is 437,688 shares (~0.015%). This is a genuine value conflict, though the discrepancy appears to result from FACT B rounding to the nearest million while FACT A provides the precise count.
We flag conflicts openly ›
Recently verified
✓ Checked against the original source
4,986
facts traced to their source — and we flag the ones that don't hold up.
101 entities tracked4,986 facts checked against source5,375 source documents archived
Query this data → isubstrate.com