Avencell Therapeutics Inc. has received approval from the EMA for its clinical trial application (CTA) for AVC-201 for the treatment of relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and other selected hematologic malignancies positive for CD123. A phase I study will be conducted in Germany.
Nearly five years after submitting its first NDA seeking U.S. approval for Vanflyta (quizartinib) for treating a subset of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd. finally cleared the last hurdle. The FDA on July 20 approved the FLT3 inhibitor for use in combination with cytarabine and anthracycline induction and cytarabine consolidation, and as maintenance monotherapy following consolidation chemotherapy, for the treatment of adult patients with newly diagnosed disease that is FLT3 ITD-positive.
Bivictrix Therapeutics plc has released promising final data from a second in vivo efficacy study of its lead clinical candidate BVX-001, a first-in-class Bi-Cygni antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
The U.S. FDA has removed the partial clinical hold it placed in April 2022, prompted by a patient’s death, on Curis Inc.’s phase I/IIa study of emavusertib in treating leukemia. The company also said it just raised $15 million to keep everything going.
It has been previously demonstrated that the WNT gene/protein family member WNT5A is down-regulated in leukemia, and low expression of this tumor suppressor has been correlated with disease progression and poor prognosis. In a recent study, researchers from Universidade Estadual de Campina aimed to assess the role of WNT5A in leukemia and evaluate the effects of Foxy-5, (Wntresearch AB) a WNT5A-mimicking compound, on the progression of this disease.
Later this year, Mendus AB plans to move its allogeneic cell-based cancer vaccine, vididencel, into a phase II combination trial with oral azacitidine to evaluate the regimen’s potential as a maintenance therapy in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
The death of a patient caused Seattle Children's to pause its phase I study of relapsed/refractory pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML). It’s another hitch in the world of ground-breaking CAR T treatments that can have a serious downside.
Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd. has identified proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) comprising cereblon (CRBN) ligands coupled to a Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) targeting moiety via linker and thus acting as BTK degradation inducers.
Part of the reason for CAR T cells’ astonishing success in B-cell cancers is that B cells are astonishingly easy to replace. CAR T cells are specific, yes. But they are not specific to tumor cells. They are specific to their target antigens. In the case of Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel, Gilead Sciences Inc.) and Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel, Novartis AG), the first two clinically approved T cells, that target is CD19, which is expressed on B-cell precursors. And when it is successful, the treatment leaves patients without any B cells at all.
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