SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Dec. 03, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CytomX Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTMX), a clinical-stage oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company pioneering a novel class of investigational antibody therapeutics based on its Probody® technology platform, today announced two poster presentations at the 2020 Virtual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) taking place from December 8-11, 2020. Abstracts are available to the public online on the SABCS website at .
“We are pleased to be presenting at this key breast cancer symposium exploratory translational studies of praluzatamab ravtansine, CX-2009, as well as the design of our new phase 2 study investigating CX-2009 alone or in combination with pacmilimab, our Probody therapeutic to PD-L1, in patients with HER2-non amplified breast cancer,” commented Amy Peterson, M.D., chief development officer of CytomX Therapeutics. “The phase 1 clinical data for CX-2009, previously presented and updated here, reinforce the potential for this first in class molecule to achieve clinically meaningful outcomes in patients with advanced breast cancers and our capability to leverage the Probody platform to drug previously elusive targets.”
Details on CytomX’s presentations at the 2020 SABCS are below:
Title: Intratumoral Activation and Phase 1/2 Clinical Activity of CX-2009, a Probody Drug Conjugate (PDC) Targeting CD166Poster Number: PS11-07Presenter: Joyce Liu, M.D., Dana Farber Cancer CenterPoster Session: Poster Session 11: Systemic Therapies II - NewPoster Session Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2020: 9:00 AM ET
Title: A Phase 2, open-label study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the probody therapeutic (Pb-Tx) CX‑2009 in metastatic HR-Positive/HER2-negative breast cancer (mHR+/HER2− BC) and of CX-2009 as monotherapy and in combination therapy with CX-072 in metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC)Poster Number: OT-03-08Lead Author: Kathy Miller, M.D., Indiana University Simon Cancer CenterPoster Session: Ongoing Trials Posters: Antibody-drug ConjugatesPoster Session Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2020: 9:00 AM ET
About CytomX TherapeuticsCytomX is a clinical-stage, oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company with a vision of transforming lives with safer, more effective therapies. We are developing a novel class of investigational antibody therapeutics, based on our Probody® technology platform, for the treatment of cancer. CytomX has strategic drug discovery and development collaborations with AbbVie, Amgen, Astellas, and Bristol Myers Squibb.
Probody therapeutics are designed to remain inactive until they are activated by proteases in the tumor microenvironment. As a result, Probody therapeutics are intended to bind selectively to tumors and decrease binding to healthy tissue, to minimize toxicity and potentially create safer, more effective therapies. As leaders in the field, our innovative technology is designed to turn previously undruggable targets into druggable targets and to enable more effective combination therapies. CytomX and its partners, comprised of leading biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, have developed a robust pipeline of potential first-in-class therapeutic candidates against novel, difficult to drug targets and potential best-in-class immunotherapeutic candidates against clinically validated targets. The CytomX clinical stage pipeline includes first-in-class product candidates against previously undruggable targets, including a CD166-targeting Probody drug conjugate wholly owned by CytomX (CX-2009) and a CD71-targeting Probody drug conjugate partnered with AbbVie (CX-2029). CD166 and CD71 are among cancer targets that are considered to be inaccessible to conventional antibody drug conjugates due to their presence on many healthy tissues. The CytomX clinical stage pipeline also includes cancer immunotherapeutic candidates against validated targets such as our wholly owned anti-PD-L1 Probody therapeutic, CX-072, and the CTLA-4-targeting Probody therapeutics, BMS-986249 and BMS-986288, partnered with Bristol Myers Squibb. For additional information about CytomX Therapeutics, visit and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
CytomX Therapeutics Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that are difficult to predict, may be beyond our control, and may cause the actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied in such statements. Accordingly, you should not rely on any of these forward-looking statements, including those relating to the potential benefits, safety and efficacy or progress of CytomX’s or any of its collaborative partners’ product candidates, including CX-2009, the potential benefits or applications of CytomX’s Probody platform technology, CytomX’s ability to develop and advance product candidates into and successfully complete clinical trials, including the ongoing and planned clinical trials of CX-2009, and the timing of the commencement of clinical trials and other development milestones. Risks and uncertainties that contribute to the uncertain nature of the forward-looking statements include: the unproven nature of CytomX’s novel Probody Platform technology; CytomX’s clinical trial product candidates are in the initial stages of clinical development and its other product candidates are currently in preclinical development, and the process by which preclinical and clinical development could potentially lead to an approved product is long and subject to significant risks and uncertainties, including the risk that the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic may continue to negatively impact the business, research and clinical operations of CytomX or its partners, including the development of preclinical drug candidates due to delays in and disruption of research activities and the development of clinical drug candidates due to delays in or disruption of clinical trials, including impacts on the enrollment of patients in clinical trials or other clinical trial disruptions; the possibility that the results of early clinical trials may not be predictive of future results; the possibility that CytomX’s clinical trials will not be successful; the possibility that current preclinical research may not result in additional product candidates; CytomX’s dependence on the success of CX-2009, CX-2029, BMS-986249, BMS-986288, and CX-072; CytomX’s reliance on third parties for the manufacture of the company’s product candidates; and possible regulatory developments in the United States and foreign countries. Additional applicable risks and uncertainties include those relating to our preclinical research and development, clinical development, and other risks identified under the heading "Risk Factors" included in CytomX’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on November 5, 2020. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on information currently available to CytomX and speak only as of the date on which they are made. CytomX does not undertake and specifically disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of any new information, future events, changed circumstances or otherwise.
Probody is a U.S. registered trademark of CytomX Therapeutics, Inc.
Investor and Media Contact:Stern Investor RelationsStephanie Ascherstephanie.ascher@sternir.com212-362-1200
