Transgene to Present Data on its Two Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines at the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting
May 26 2023 - 12:30AM
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Presentations include new data further demonstrating the immune
responses induced by TG4001 and recently updated results from the
adjuvant Phase I trial of neoantigen vaccine TG4050 in head and
neck cancer
Regulatory News:
Transgene (Euronext Paris: TNG), a biotech company that
designs and develops virus-based immunotherapies for the treatment
of cancer, announced two poster presentations at the 2023
American Association of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting
to be held in Chicago, IL (June 2-6).
The posters will highlight that in challenging clinical
settings:
✓ TG4001 induced T-cell responses against
HPV16 antigens in the ongoing Phase II trial. ✓ TG4050: 100%
of the patients treated with the individualized therapeutic cancer
vaccine developed multiple functional T cell responses against
targeted neoantigens, which may be associated with an improved
outcome in patients with head and neck cancer in the adjuvant
setting.
Details for the presentations are as follows:
TG4001 Abstract Title: Immunogenicity and clinical
activity of tipapkinogen sovacivec (TG4001), an HPV-16 cancer
vaccine: A randomized phase 2 study in advanced anogenital cancers.
Abstract Number: 2630 Session Title: Developmental
Therapeutics—Immunotherapy Session Date and Time: Saturday,
June 3, 2023, 8:00 AM-11:00 AM (CDT) Link to the abstract: click
here
TG4050 Abstract Title: Safety and immunogenicity of
TG4050: A personalized cancer vaccine in head and neck carcinoma.
Abstract Number: 6082 Session Title: Head and Neck
Cancer Session Date and Time: Monday, June 5, 2023, 1:15
PM-4:15 PM (CDT) Link to the abstract: click here
The abstracts are available on Transgene’s website.
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About TG4001 TG4001 is an investigational therapeutic
vaccine based on a non-propagative, highly attenuated Vaccinia
vector (MVA), which is engineered to express HPV16 antigens (E6
& E7) and an adjuvant (IL-2). TG4001 is designed to have a
two-pronged antiviral approach: to alert the immune system
specifically to cells presenting the HPV16 E6 and E7 antigens, that
can be found in HPV16-related tumors, and to further stimulate the
infection-clearing activity of the immune system through
interleukin 2 (IL-2). TG4001 has been administered to more than 350
individuals, demonstrating good safety and promising efficacy
results [1]. Its mechanism of action and good safety profile make
TG4001 an excellent candidate for combinations with other therapies
in HPV-mediated solid tumors.
It is currently evaluated in a multi-center, open label,
randomized Phase II trial (NCT03260023) designed to compare the
efficacy of the combination of TG4001 and avelumab versus avelumab
alone in patients with advanced, recurrent and/or metastatic
HPV16-positive anogenital cancers who have disease progression
after a maximum of one line of systemic treatment, or who are not
eligible for first-line chemotherapy.
About TG4050 TG4050 is an individualized immunotherapy
being developed for solid tumors that is based on Transgene’s
myvac® technology and powered by NEC’s longstanding artificial
intelligence (AI) expertise. This virus-based therapeutic vaccine
encodes neoantigens (patient-specific mutations) identified and
selected by NEC’s Neoantigen Prediction System. The prediction
system is based on more than two decades of expertise in AI and has
been trained on proprietary data allowing it to accurately
prioritize and select the most immunogenic sequences.
TG4050 is designed to stimulate the immune system of patients in
order to induce a T-cell response that is able to recognize and
destroy tumor cells based on their own neoantigens. This
individualized immunotherapy is developed and produced for each
patient.
TG4050 is being evaluated in two Phase I clinical trials for
patients with HPV-negative head and neck cancers (NCT04183166) and
ovarian cancer (NCT03839524), and has shown promising initial
results.
About Transgene Transgene (Euronext: TNG) is a
biotechnology company focused on designing and developing targeted
immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer. Transgene’s programs
utilize viral vector technology with the goal of indirectly or
directly killing cancer cells.
The Company’s clinical-stage programs consist of a portfolio of
therapeutic vaccines and oncolytic viruses:
TG4050, the first individualized therapeutic vaccine based on
the myvac® platform, TG4001 for the treatment of HPV-positive
cancers, as well as TG6002, BT-001 and TG6050, three oncolytic
viruses based on the Invir.IO® viral backbone.
With Transgene’s myvac® platform, therapeutic vaccination enters
the field of precision medicine with a novel immunotherapy that is
fully tailored to each individual. The myvac® approach allows the
generation of a virus-based immunotherapy that encodes
patient-specific mutations identified and selected by Artificial
Intelligence capabilities provided by its partner NEC.
With its proprietary platform Invir.IO®, Transgene is building
on its viral vector engineering expertise to design a new
generation of multifunctional oncolytic viruses.
Additional information about Transgene is available at:
www.transgene.fr
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