Intensity Therapeutics reports it has entered into an agreement with Merck (known as MSD outside the United States and Canada), through a subsidiary, to evaluate the combination of Intensity’s lead product candidate INT230-6 and KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab), Merck’s anti-PD-1 (programmed death receptor-1) therapy, in patients with advanced solid malignancies including pancreatic, bile duct, squamous cell and non-MSI high colon cancers.