Master the Signal.Navigate Complexity.Create Cures.
A clinical-stage immunotherapy company developing engineered interleukins designed to precisely modulate the immune system.
About
At MedicennaWe Start witha Powerful Idea.
The best way to treat immune-driven disease is to speak the same language as the immune system itself.
We utilize directed evolution and AI-driven rational design to re-engineer natural interleukins, the immune system's own messengers, and create precision interleukin-based therapies for cancer and other serious immune-driven diseases, including autoimmune and inflammatory disorders.
We are committed to delivering first- and best-in-class treatment options for people living with these challenging diseases.
One Vision.Multiple Platforms.
Infinite Hope.
Medicenna has developed three interleukin-based platforms, Superkine™, BiSKIT™ and T-MASK™. Our platforms refine the properties of native interleukins to fine-tune potency, selectivity and tissue-targeting, with the goal of improving therapeutic outcomes and tolerability for patients.
Partner Ready Pipeline
Clinical Trials
How We Are Makingan Impact Today
Medicenna is currently enrolling patients in the Phase 1/2 ABILITY-1 study for patients with advanced solid tumors to evaluate MDNA11, a long-acting beta-enhanced IL-2 Superkine that is designed to primarily signal through the IL-2 beta receptor found on cancer-fighting immune cells.
Medicenna recently announced a collaboration with Fondazione Melanoma Onlus in Italy to evaluate MDNA11 in patients with high-risk surgically resectable stage III melanoma prior to surgery. NEO-CYT is designed to evaluate the potential of MDNA11 to enhance the efficacy of standard-of-care cancer immunotherapy in the neoadjuvant setting.
Medicenna completed a Phase 2b study in the deadliest form of brain cancer, recurrent glioblastoma. The data from the trial demonstrated that single treatment with their phase-3 ready immunotherapy doubled the median overall survival.
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Partnerships are Core to Our Strategy
Interested in learning more about our assets? At Medicenna we are open to discussions on co-development opportunities, outlicensing and research collaborations.
Partnerships
Medicenna has a clinical trial collaboration and supply agreement with Merck (known as MSD outside the US and Canada) to evaluate MDNA11 in combination with pembrolizumab.
The collaboration includes a Phase 1/2 study evaluating MDNA11 in combination with pembrolizumab in patients with advanced solid tumors.
Medicenna has partnered with Fondazione Melanoma Onlus in an investigator-initiated trial 'NEO-CYT' that is assessing MDNA-11 in combination with nivolumab with and without ipilimumab in high-risk, surgically resectable stage III cutaneous melanoma in the neoadjuvant setting. By treating patients prior to surgery NEO-CYT is designed to assess whether addition of MDNA11 to the standard of care can deepen the responses associated with improved long-term outcomes.
Investor Relations
Interested in learning more about our assets? At Medicenna we are open to discussions on co-development opportunities, outlicensing and research collaborations.
April 14, 2026
Medicenna to Present at the 2026 Bloom Burton & Co. Healthcare Investor Conference
April 9, 2026
Medicenna Therapeutics Appoints Dr. Nageatte Ibrahim as Chief Medical Officer
March 18, 2026