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WALTHAM, Mass. and KENILWORTH, N.J., March 31, 2015 – Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Merck (NYSE:MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced today that they have entered into a clinical trial collaboration to evaluate the safety and efficacy of combining Syndax’s entinostat, an investigational epigenetic therapy, with Merck’s KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab), the first anti-PD-1 therapy approved in the United States. The Phase 1b/2 study will evaluate this novel combination regimen in patients with either advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) or melanoma. The study is expected to begin enrolling patients in the second half of 2015.