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Results from the dose-escalation portion of the Phase 1 clinical study of ISB 2001 in patients with heavily pretreated multiple myeloma to be presented at the 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting NEW YORK, May 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- IGI, a global, fully integrated clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing multispecifics™ in oncology, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation for ISB 2001. This important designation was granted for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM) who have received at least three prior lines of therapy including a proteasome inhibitor, an immunomodulatory agent, and an anti-CD38 monoclonal antibody. ISB 2001 is an investigational trispecific antibody therapeutic that targets BCMA and CD38 on myeloma cells and CD3 on T cells. ISB 2001 is currently being evaluated in a Phase 1 dose-expansion study. "A growing number of patients with multiple myeloma have been heavily pretreated, have exhausted currently approved therapies, and continue to face disease progression," said Cyril Konto, M.D., President and CEO of IGI. "At IGI, we have long recognized the urgent need for novel treatment options – particularly for patients who have already received first-generation bispecifics or CAR T-cell therapies. Our trispecific candidate is designed to enhance tumor targeting while reducing on-target, off-tumor toxicity. We are honored to receive this Fast Track designation and look forward to working closely with the FDA to advance our Multispecific™ T-cell engager, with the goal of delivering a first-in-class therapy for patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma." IGI recently completed the dose-escalation portion of its Phase 1 clinical study in patients with heavily pretreated multiple myeloma. Initial study results, presented in an oral session at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting in December 2024, demonstrated a high overall response rate (ORR) with durable responses and a favorable safety profile. Complete results from the dose-escalation portion will be presented in a rapid oral session at the 2025 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting on Monday, June 2, 2025. The FDA's Fast Track designation is designed to enable the development and expedite the review of drugs that treat serious conditions and address unmet medical needs, with the ultimate goal of getting important new drugs to patients earlier. A drug that receives Fast Track designation may be eligible for more frequent meetings and communications with the FDA and rolling review of any application for marketing approval. A drug receiving Fast Track designation also may be eligible for Priority Review if relevant criteria are met. ISB 2001 was previously granted Orphan Drug Designation by the FDA in July 2023. ASCO Rapid Oral Presentation Details: Session title: Phase 1, first-in-human study of ISB 2001: A BCMAxCD38xCD3-targeting trispecific antibody for patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM)—Dose escalation results. (Abstract # 7514) Session Name: Hematologic Malignancies—Plasma Cell Dyscrasia Date & Time: June 2, 2025, 8 AM – 9:30 AM CDT About ISB 2001 and Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma ISB 2001 is a first-in-class trispecific T-cell engager that targets BCMA and CD38 on myeloma cells and CD3 on T cells. Developed using IGI's proprietary BEAT® protein platform, ISB 2001 was engineered with two distinct binders against myeloma-associated antigens to enhance avidity, even at low target expression levels, while aiming to improve safety over first-generation bispecific antibodies. The dose-expansion portion of the ongoing Phase 1 trial in patients with RRMM (NCT05862012) is currently enrolling patients across 9 sites in the United States and Australia. Nearly all patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM) ultimately experience disease progression. With no cure currently available and limited treatment options once approved therapies are exhausted, there remains a significant unmet need. IGI is developing ISB 2001 to address this gap, specifically for patients who have previously received T-cell–directed therapies, including CAR T-cell treatments and bispecific antibodies. About IGI IGI is a global, fully integrated clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing innovative biologics in oncology. Headquartered in New York, NY, IGI is advancing a robust pipeline of novel, first-in-class multispecifics™ aimed at addressing complex diseases and treating patients holistically. 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May 01, 2025 -- Lyell Immunopharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: LYEL), a clinical-stage company advancing a pipeline of next-generation CAR T-cell therapies for patients with cancer, today announced that an abstract highlighting new clinical data from the Phase 1/2 trial of LYL314 (formerly IMPT-314) in large B-cell lymphoma will be presented as an oral presentation at the International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma (ICML) 2025 taking place in Lugano, Switzerland June 17-21, 2025. LYL314 is a dual-targeting CD19/CD20 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell product candidate in development for patients with aggressive large B-cell lymphoma. LYL314 has received Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy and Fast Track designations from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of patients with relapsed and/or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in the 3rd or later line setting. Details of the presentation are below: LYL314, a CD19/CD20 CAR T-cell candidate enriched for CD62L+ stem-like cells, achieves high rates of durable complete responses in R/R large B-cell lymphoma Session Name: Focus on New Cellular Therapies Presentation Date & Time: June 18, 2025, 5:40 pm CEST (11:40 am ET) Presenting Author: Akil Merchant, MD, Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Lymphoma Program at the Samuel Oschin Cancer Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA Presentation Number: 106 Location: Room B Lyell is a clinical-stage company advancing a pipeline of next-generation CAR T-cell therapies for patients with hematologic malignancies and solid tumors. To realize the potential of cell therapy for cancer, Lyell utilizes a suite of technologies to endow CAR T cells with attributes needed to drive durable tumor cytotoxicity and achieve consistent and long-lasting clinical responses, including the ability to resist exhaustion, maintain qualities of durable stemness and function in the hostile tumor microenvironment. The content above comes from the network. if any infringement, please contact us to modify.

The first shards of human data on in vivo CAR-T cell therapy look promising, based on recent separate reports from two biotech companies’ academic-led studies in China. Last week, a Chinese startup called Genocury became the second company to share initial clinical data on a CAR-T treatment that doesn’t require a patient’s cells to be extracted from their body. Genocury said that an advanced large B cell lymphoma patient went into complete remission after one month of in vivo CAR-T therapy, and has remained in remission for over three months. Notably, the in vivo CAR-T therapy does not require lymphodepletion, a course of chemotherapy that conventional CAR-T therapies require before treatment and that comes with toxicities. “This is good news for the field and demonstrates the increasing momentum around in vivo CAR-T approaches,” said University of Pennsylvania CAR-T pioneer Bruce Levine, who isn’t involved in Genocury’s studies but is a scientific founder of another in vivo CAR-T company called Capstan. Last week’s results follow Belgian startup EsoBiotec’s announcement in January that a multiple myeloma patient who received the lowest dose of its in vivo CAR-T therapy had no detectable cancer cells in their bone marrow at one month, without any significant adverse events during treatment. That patient also did not receive prior lymphodepletion. The data from both companies come from investigator-initiated studies in China, which biotech startups have been leveraging more frequently to quickly generate early clinical data on their experimental treatments. EsoBiotec is working with Pregene Biopharma which, like Genocury, is based in Shenzhen. In March, AstraZeneca announced plans to acquire EsoBiotec for $425 million, plus additional payments. At least five groups have begun clinical trials for in vivo CAR cell therapies. Aside from EsoBiotec and Genocury, Myeloid Therapeutics, Interius BioTherapeutics and Umoja Biopharma are all studying experimental in vivo cell therapies in patients. In conventional CAR-T therapy, a patient’s cells are extracted, engineered, and then reinfused — a complex, expensive process that can take weeks to months. The therapy, while transformative for certain blood cancers, comes with safety risks from the lymphodepletion before treatment and immune overreaction (cytokine release syndrome and ICANS) afterwards. And so far, comparatively less complex “off-the-shelf” treatments using donor cells have yet to take off. Makers of in vivo cell therapy hope that their treatments can become a different kind of “off-the-shelf” option. Their therapies deliver genetic material to turn the patient’s immune cells into cancer-fighting ones directly in the body. The companies are using different technologies to deliver their treatments and are also going after a range of diseases. The delivery technologies fall into two camps: viral and non-viral. Researchers have more concerns around the potential risks of a virus-based therapy, including of secondary cancer, but it’s an older and more proven approach. Non-viral delivery is newer and more challenging, and fewer companies have reached clinical studies. It is unclear based on Genocury’s disclosures whether it is using a viral or non-viral approach. A photo on its website mentions both viral and non-viral methods, and the company could not be reached for comment. EsoBiotec is developing a lentiviral-based cell therapy that goes after BCMA, a well-known target for multiple myeloma. Interius, which expects to report clinical data later this year, and Umoja are likewise studying lentiviral-based therapies. Umoja, like Genocury, is developing a CD19-targeted CAR-T therapy for blood cancer, and it plans to study the treatment in autoimmune disease as well. AbbVie has an option to license that therapy, and in January the startup raised $100 million to jumpstart its clinical studies. Interius’ therapy targets another immune cell protein called CD20, and it’s studying its B cell cancer therapy in both Australia and Germany. The Philadelphia biotech’s therapy is meant to make both ​​CAR-T and NK cells directly in the body. On the other hand, Sid Mukherjee’s startup Myeloid is using mRNA delivered non-virally. It uses fatty acid envelopes called lipid nanoparticles — similar to what’s used in the Covid vaccines. However, as its name suggests, it’s targeting a type of immune cell called myeloid cells. It has two programs in the clinic going after solid tumors — an area of cancer that conventional CAR-T therapies have yet to crack.