** Shares of Israel-based drug developer Chemomab
Therapeutics Ltd CMMB.O rise 38.3% to $2.70 premarket
** U.S. FDA clears CMMB's investigational new drug
application for a mid-stage trial of its drug candidate, CM-101,
in patients suffering from systemic sclerosis, an auto-immune
disorder affecting skin
** The trial aims to assess safety and establish biological
and clinical proof-of-concept for CM-101 - company
** CMMB had completed planning of the mid-stage trial in
early November last year
** In 2022, stock was down 53.6%
(Reporting by Pratik Jain in Bengaluru)
((Pratik.Jain@thomsonreuters.com))