HOLON, Israel, July 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Compugen Ltd. (Nasdaq: CGEN ) (TASE: CGEN), a clinical-stage cancer immunotherapy company and a pioneer in computational target discovery, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the investigational new drug (IND) application to initiate a Phase 1 trial for COM503, a potential first-in-class, high affinity anti-IL-18 binding protein antibody licensed to Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Gilead).