Oncternal Therapeutics Presents New Preclinical Data from its anti-ROR1 Cell Therapy Collaboration with the Karolinska Institutet at the EHA2022 Congress
- Poster Title: Preclinical Evaluation of Zilovertamab-Based Anti-ROR1 Chimeric Antigen Receptors in NK and T Cells
- Abstract Number: P1435
Session Title: Gene therapy, cellular immunotherapy and vaccination -Biology & Translational Research - Session Date and Time:
June 11, 2022 from9:00am CEST
“Despite recent significant advances in treating hematological malignancies with current CAR-based cell therapies, certain limitations remain, such as treatment failures due to tumor antigen escape, and toxicities including induction of immunodeficiencies like B-cell aplasia. Patients are in need of more effective treatment options” said
“Based on the wide expression of ROR1 across tumor indications and its underlying importance in cancer biology as well as the safety and efficacy shown by zilovertamab in our clinical studies, we believe that targeting ROR1 using zilovertamab-based CAR cell therapy might offer a potentially effective treatment option for patients suffering from unmet medical needs, including heme malignancies and solid tumors” said
ONCT-808 is the Company’s lead autologous ROR1-targeted CAR-T cell therapy program candidate. The program is advancing towards an Investigational New Drug (IND) application submission expected in mid-2022.
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Oncternal Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel oncology therapies for the treatment of patients with cancers that have critical unmet medical need. Oncternal pursues drug development targeting promising, yet untapped biological pathways implicated in cancer generation or progression, focusing on hematological malignancies and prostate cancer. The clinical pipeline includes zilovertamab an investigational monoclonal antibody designed to inhibit ROR1, a type I tyrosine kinase-like orphan receptor. Zilovertamab is being evaluated in a Phase 1/2 clinical trial in combination with ibrutinib for the treatment of patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), in investigator-initiated studies, including a Phase 1b clinical trial in combination with paclitaxel for the treatment of women with HER2-negative metastatic or locally advanced, unresectable breast cancer, in a Phase 2 clinical trial of zilovertamab in combination with venetoclax, a Bcl-2 inhibitor, in patients with relapsed/refractory CLL, and in a Phase 1b study of zilovertamab in combination with docetaxel in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Oncternal is also developing ONCT-808, a chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapy that targets ROR1, which is currently in preclinical development as a potential treatment for hematologic cancers and solid tumors. The early-stage pipeline also includes ONCT-534, a dual-action androgen receptor inhibitor (DAARI), that is in preclinical development as a potential treatment for castration resistant prostate cancers, including those with clinically important resistance to approved androgen receptor inhibitors. More information is available at https://oncternal.com/.
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