OSE Immunotherapeutics Invited to Present Preclinical Data on its PD-1/IL-7 Bifunctional Program BiCKI®-IL-7 Cancer Immunotherapy

At American Association for Cancer Research Annual (AACR) Meeting 2022
New Orleans, April 8 – 13

NANTES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News:

OSE Immunotherapeutics SA (ISIN: FR0012127173; Mnemo: OSE) today announced that the Company is invited to present the latest progress on its bispecific antibody checkpoint inhibitor BiCKI® platform, and in particular on its bifunctional therapy targeting PD-1 and the Interleukin-7 (IL-7) cytokine, BiCKI®-IL-7, during a plenary oral presentation in an educational session dedicated to immunocytokines at the American Association Cancer for Research (AACR) annual meeting to be held on April 8 – 13, 2022 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

BiCKI®-IL-7 is a bifunctional therapy which targets PD-1 and at the same time provides IL-7 cytokine to restore exhausted T cell function, to disarm Treg suppressive activity and to extend stem-like memory T cells able to reconstitute the memory and effector T cells. This immunotherapy has potential to address the high medical need of patients with cancers with primary or secondary resistance ⁽¹⁾ or that are refractory to immune checkpoint inhibitor treatments. In parallel to the ongoing late-stage preclinical testing, the industrial development of BiCKI®-IL-7 has been recently initiated, representing another critical step in the product’s development.

The BiCKI® platform, and in particular the bifunctional therapy BiCKI®-IL-7v, preferentially delivers the IL-7 cytokine at the heart of the tumor microenvironment (TME) where T PD1+ lymphocytes accumulate in response to immunotherapy. This TME-driven IL-7 immunocytokine has a well differentiated biodistribution compared to other cytokines being currently developed.

In addition, the BiCKI®-IL-7v immunocytokine significantly improves the quality and durability of memory T lymphocytes in the tumor microenvironment (with T lymphocyte stem cells without immune exhaustion), this IL-7 T cell-specific profile is very different from other cytokines developed which increase the quantity of T cells while accelerating the exhaustion process of the immune response.

Nicolas Poirier, Chief Scientific Officer of OSE Immunotherapeutics comments: “We are very proud to share an update on the advancements made with our preclinical immunology product, BiCKI®-IL-7, in an oral session dedicated to an overview of the novel trends in cytokine immunotherapy. This presentation highlights the differentiation of our novel bispecific therapy combining anti-PD1 and IL-7 cytokine and positions it as a high potential asset for cancer patients suffering from immune escape following checkpoint inhibitor treatments.”

⁽¹⁾ Acquired Resistance to Immune Checkpoint Blockades: The Underlying Mechanisms and Potential Strategies; Zhou et al.; Frontiers in Immunology, 2021

The details of the presentation are as follows:

« Anti-PD1/IL7v immunocytokine promotes durable T-cell responses and overcomes anti-PD1 resistance »
Session Type: Educational Session
Track(s): Immunology, Drug Development
Session ED015 - Immunocytokines: Strategies for Drug Delivery and Tissue Targeting
April 9, 2022, 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM

ABOUT OSE Immunotherapeutics
OSE Immunotherapeutics is an integrated biotechnology company focused on developing and partnering therapies to control the immune system for Immuno-Oncology and Immuno-Inflammation. Its balanced first-in-class clinical and preclinical portfolio has a diversified risk profile:
Immuno-Oncology first-in-class products
- Tedopi® (innovative combination of neoepitopes): the company’s most advanced product; positive results for Phase 3 trial (Atalante 1) in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer patients in secondary resistance after checkpoint inhibitor failure.
Other ongoing combination trials sponsored by cooperative clinical research groups in oncology:
Phase 2 in pancreatic cancer (TEDOPaM), sponsor GERCOR.
Phase 2 in ovary cancer, in combination with pembrolizumab (TEDOVA), sponsor ARCAGY-GINECO.
Phase 2 in non-small cell lung cancer in combination with nivolumab, sponsor Italian foundation FoRT.
- BI 765063 (OSE-172, anti-SIRPα mAb on CD47/SIRPα pathway): developed in partnership with Boehringer Ingelheim in advanced solid tumors; positive Phase 1 dose escalation results of BI 765063 in monotherapy and in combination with ezabenlimab (PD-1 antagonist); ongoing expansion Phase 1.
- OSE-279, anti-PD1 – advanced preclinical stage.
- BiCKI®: bispecific fusion protein platform built on the key backbone component of anti-PD1 combined with a new immunotherapy target (for example: BiCKI®-IL7, preclinical stage) to increase anti-tumor efficacy.
Immuno-Inflammation first-in-class products
- OSE-127/S95011 (humanized monoclonal antibody antagonist of IL-7 receptor): developed in partnership with Servier; positive Phase 1 results; ongoing Phase 2 in ulcerative colitis (sponsor OSE) and ongoing Phase 2a in Sjögren’s syndrome (sponsor Servier).
- FR104 (anti-CD28 monoclonal antibody): licensing partnership agreement with Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in transplantation; ongoing Phase 1/2 in renal transplant (sponsored by the Nantes University Hospital); US IND obtained by Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for a clinical trial; Phase 2 planned in an autoimmune disease indication.
- OSE-230 (ChemR23 agonist mAb): preclinical stage therapeutic agent with the potential to resolve chronic inflammation by driving affected tissues to tissue integrity.
CoVepiT: a prophylactic second-generation vaccine activating cytotoxic T lymphocytes against COVID-19, developed using optimized epitopes from SARS-CoV2 viral proteins, epitopes non impacted by multi-variants. Shows good tolerance and very good level of T cell immune response. In clinical testing, a long-term memory response was confirmed at 6 months.

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