LONDON, August 18, 2021– Treos Bio Limited (“Treos”), a clinical stage biotechnology company using data science and proprietary biomarkers to develop both precision off-the-shelf and personalized peptide immunotherapies for cancer, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Investigational New Drug (IND) application for PolyPEPI1018, the Company’s lead product candidate, as an add-on to third-line chemotherapy (TAS-102) for the treatment of patients with late-stage metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC).
“The acceptance of this IND for mCRC marks another milestone in the advancement of our lead cancer immunotherapy program, PolyPEPI1018,” said Dr. Christopher C. Gallen, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Treos. “The treatment landscape for patients in this late-stage setting is dire, as many face scarce alternatives following long chemotherapy regimens. We believe our product candidate, designed with 12 computationally selected HLA Class I and II epitopes most frequently presented in mCRC tumors, has the potential to demonstrate improved anti-tumor activity for this growing patient population.”
OBERTO 201 is a single arm, open label, investigator-initiated Phase 1b trial evaluating 15 patients with metastatic colorectal cancer who are beginning a third-line treatment of the oral chemotherapy TAS-102. The first dose will be administered on day 17 after initiation of third-line therapy. The primary endpoint of the study is safety and secondary endpoints are progression-free survival as well as other measures of anti-tumor activity and immunologic response.
The trial is funded by a grant awarded to Mayo Clinic in Minnesota (awardee) and to Treos (sub-awardee) by the U.S. Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program.
About Colorectal Cancer
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer and cause of death in the United States and the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Microsatellite stable (MSS) CRC accounts for 85 percent of CRC cases and almost all cases of mCRC. There are approximately 1.4 million people living with colorectal cancer in the United States. Current treatments for CRC include surgery and chemotherapy in early stages of disease and chemotherapy, biologics and targeted therapies in later stages.
About PolyPEPI1018
PolyPEPI-1018, Treos’ lead product candidate, is an off-the-shelf immunotherapy in clinical development for the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer, co-developed with a candidate companion diagnostic. The therapy is in development as a first-line maintenance therapy and as a third line treatment. The companion diagnostic uses Treos’ proprietary PASCal computational tool to identify Personal EPItopes (PEPIs) that are likely to induce antigen-specific T Cell responses in a patient.
About Treos Bio Limited
Treos Bio uses computational data science and proprietary biomarkers to develop precision off-the-shelf and personalized peptide-based cancer immunotherapies. The Company has developed a unique ability to match the antigens expressed by a specific cancer to the individual patient’s target recognition mechanism (HLA). This technology aims to address the challenge of the variability of an individual patient’s clinical responses to cancer immunotherapies. Treos’ lead candidate is PolyPEPI-1018, an off-the-shelf immunotherapy for the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer, co-developed with a candidate companion diagnostic. Treos is also developing “off-the-shelf” personalized immunotherapies (PEPI Panel) for several types of solid tumors and has completed preclinical development of PolyPEPI immunotherapies in ovarian, breast, bladder, gastric and lung cancers and melanoma. The Company is also developing an investigational COVID-19 peptide vaccine, PolyPEPI-SCoV-2. Treos launched in February 2017 and has raised $28 million Series A funding led by shareholders of BXR Group and recently closed a $14 million investment round led by Outsized Ventures (formerly known as Luminous Ventures). More information can be found at at www.treosbio.com.
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