Merkel Cell Carcinoma Pipeline Drugs Insights Report 2025: Key Therapeutic Developments, Breakthrough Drugs, and R&D Outlook by DelveInsight

Merkel Cell Carcinoma Pipeline Drugs Insights Report 2025: Key Therapeutic Developments, Breakthrough Drugs, and R&D Outlook by DelveInsight

DelveInsight’s, “Merkel Cell Carcinoma Pipeline Insight 2025” report provides comprehensive insights about 14+ companies and 14+ pipeline drugs in Merkel Cell Carcinoma pipeline landscape. It covers the Merkel Cell Carcinoma pipeline drug profiles, including clinical and nonclinical stage products. It also covers the Merkel Cell Carcinoma pipeline therapeutics assessment by product type, stage, route of administration, and molecule type. It further highlights the inactive pipeline products in this space.

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Key Takeaways from the Merkel Cell Carcinoma Pipeline Insights Report

  • On 24 October 2025, Ariceum Therapeutics Gmbh conducted a study aims to determine safety, tolerability, recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D), and preliminary antitumor activity of 225Ac-SSO110 with standard of care (SoC) therapy in patients with somatostatin receptor 2 expressing (SSTR2+) extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) and recurrent locally advanced or metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC).
  • On 17 October 2025, ImmunityBio Inc. announced a study investigating combination immunotherapies in patients with advanced solid tumors who have previously been treated with PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitors. The study aims to evaluate the safety and efficacy of NAI (nogapendekin alfa inbakicept) in combination with other agents like checkpoint inhibitors and cell therapies across various cancer types and treatment settings. The study includes multiple cohorts based on prior therapies and cancer types, with a focus on assessing overall response rate (ORR), overall survival (OS), and other measures of anti-tumor activity and immune response.
  • On 14 October 2025, TuHURA Biosciences Inc. initiated a Phase 2/3 trial will evaluate the Objective Response Rate (ORR) of IFx-Hu2.0 as an adjunctive therapy to pembrolizumab in adult participants (≥18 years) with advanced or metastatic Merkel Cell Carcinoma. A total of 118 participants will be randomized to receive either IFx-Hu2.0 or placebo via intralesional injection in a single lesion, followed by pembrolizumab.
  • DelveInsight’s Merkel Cell Carcinoma pipeline report depicts a robust space with 14+ active players working to develop 14+ pipeline therapies for Merkel Cell Carcinoma treatment.
  • The leading Merkel Cell Carcinoma Companies such as ImmunityBio, OncoSec Medical, Exelixis, 4SC, Kartos Therapeutics, Incyte Corporation, Amgen, BioInvent International AB, SOTIO Biotech, Xencor, Exicure, Checkmate Pharmaceuticals, Takeda, Genocea Biosciences, NeoImmuneTech, Sensei Biotherapeutics and others.
  • Promising Merkel Cell Carcinoma Therapies such as Avelumab, Pembrolizumab, MLN0128, KRT-232, Retifanlimab, Ipilimumab and others.

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Merkel Cell Carcinoma Overview

Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare, aggressive form of skin cancer with a high risk for returning (recurring) and spreading (metastasizing), often within two to three years after initial diagnosis. Merkel cells are located deep in the top layer of skin. Merkel cells are connected to nerves, signaling touch sensation as “touch receptors.” MCC tumors often, but not always, appear on sun-exposed areas of the body. The tumors are not nearly as distinctive as other skin cancers and can appear as a pearly pimple-like lump, sometimes skin-colored, red, purple or bluish-red, though they are rarely tender to the touch. Treatments for Merkel cell carcinoma can include: surgery, Radiation therapy, immunotherapy, and chemotherapy.

Merkel Cell Carcinoma Emerging Drugs Profile

  • Domatinostat: 4SC

Domatinostat is an orally administered histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor with a unique mode of action that was designed to strengthen the body’s own anti-tumor immune response. Domatinostat “opens” the tumor microenvironment and encourages infiltration of immune cells into the tumor. To advance the development program, 4SC has also signed a drug supply agreement with Merck KGaA for avelumab (anti-PD-L1 antibody) to conduct a Phase II clinical trial of domatinostat in combination with avelumab in advanced-stage Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) patients progressing on previous anti-PD-(L)1 monotherapy (MERKLIN 2).

  • Cavrotolimod: Exicure

Cavrotolimod (AST-008) is a toll-like receptor 9 agonist designed to activate the innate immune system and induce a potent anti-cancer immune response, especially in combination with checkpoint inhibitors. During the first half of 2019, five clinical trial sites were opened and began dosing patients for the Phase I/II clinical trial. The Phase 1b stage was an open-label, multi-center trial designed to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and preliminary efficacy of intratumoral cavrotolimod (AST-008) injections alone and in combination with intravenous pembrolizumab in patients with advanced solid tumors. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted two Fast Track designations to cavrotolimod (AST-008). Exicure initiated the Phase II stage of the clinical trial with dose-expansion cohorts of intratumoral cavrotolimod in combination with approved checkpoint inhibitors to treat two cohorts of patients with locally advanced or metastatic MCC or CSCC.

The Merkel Cell Carcinoma pipeline report provides insights into

  • The report provides detailed insights about companies that are developing therapies for the treatment of Merkel Cell Carcinoma with aggregate therapies developed by each company for the same.
  • It accesses the Different therapeutic candidates segmented into early-stage, mid-stage, and late-stage of development for Merkel Cell Carcinoma Treatment.
  • Merkel Cell Carcinoma Companies are involved in targeted therapeutics development with respective active and inactive (dormant or discontinued) projects.
  • Merkel Cell Carcinoma Drugs under development based on the stage of development, route of administration, target receptor, monotherapy or combination therapy, a different mechanism of action, and molecular type.
  • Detailed analysis of collaborations (company-company collaborations and company-academia collaborations), licensing agreement and financing details for future advancement of the Merkel Cell Carcinoma market.

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Merkel Cell Carcinoma Companies

ImmunityBio, OncoSec Medical, Exelixis, 4SC, Kartos Therapeutics, Incyte Corporation, Amgen, BioInvent International AB, SOTIO Biotech, Xencor, Exicure, Checkmate Pharmaceuticals, Takeda, Genocea Biosciences, NeoImmuneTech, Sensei Biotherapeutics and others.

Merkel Cell Carcinoma pipeline report provides the therapeutic assessment of the pipeline drugs by the Route of Administration. Products have been categorized under various ROAs such as

  • Oral
  • Parenteral
  • Intravenous
  • Subcutaneous
  • Topical.
  • Molecule Type

Merkel Cell Carcinoma Products have been categorized under various Molecule types such as

  • Monoclonal Antibody
  • Peptides
  • Polymer
  • Small molecule
  • Gene therapy
  • Product Type

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Scope of the Merkel Cell Carcinoma Pipeline Report

  • Coverage- Global
  • Merkel Cell Carcinoma Companies- ImmunityBio, OncoSec Medical, Exelixis, 4SC, Kartos Therapeutics, Incyte Corporation, Amgen, BioInvent International AB, SOTIO Biotech, Xencor, Exicure, Checkmate Pharmaceuticals, Takeda, Genocea Biosciences, NeoImmuneTech, Sensei Biotherapeutics and others.
  • Merkel Cell Carcinoma Therapies- Avelumab, Pembrolizumab, MLN0128, KRT-232, Retifanlimab, Ipilimumab and others.
  • Merkel Cell Carcinoma Therapeutic Assessment by Product Type: Mono, Combination, Mono/Combination
  • Merkel Cell Carcinoma Therapeutic Assessment by Clinical Stages: Discovery, Pre-clinical, Phase I, Phase II, Phase III

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Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Executive Summary
  3. Merkel Cell Carcinoma: Overview
  4. Pipeline Therapeutics
  5. Therapeutic Assessment
  6. Mid Stage Products (Phase II)
  7. Domatinostat: 4SC
  8. Drug profiles in the detailed report…..
  9. Early Stage Products (Phase I/II)
  10. XmAb18087: Xencor
  11. Drug profiles in the detailed report…..
  12. Preclinical stage products
  13. SNS-401-NG: Sensei Biotherapeutics
  14. Drug profiles in the detailed report…..
  15. Inactive Products
  16. Merkel Cell Carcinoma Key Companies
  17. Merkel Cell Carcinoma Key Products
  18. Merkel Cell Carcinoma- Unmet Needs
  19. Merkel Cell Carcinoma- Market Drivers and Barriers
  20. Merkel Cell Carcinoma- Future Perspectives and Conclusion
  21. Merkel Cell Carcinoma Analyst Views
  22. Merkel Cell Carcinoma Key Companies
  23. Appendix

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