BioAtla Highlighted Clinical Program and Pipeline Updates at Virtual R&D Day
25 Jul 2024
BioAtla Highlighted Clinical Program and Pipeline Updates at Virtual R&D Day
Clinical benefit observed among non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients harboring mutant KRAS (mKRAS) variants in the Phase 2 mecbotamab vedotin (CAB-AXL-ADC) study; AXL tumoral expression highly associated with multiple mKRAS variants
Evalstotug (CAB-CTLA-4 antibody) as a monotherapy and in combination with PD-1 continues to provide promising anti-tumor activity with a differentiated safety profile associated with a low incidence of immune-related adverse events
SAN DIEGO, July 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BioAtla, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCAB), a global clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development of Conditionally Active Biologic (CAB) antibody therapeutics for the treatment of solid tumors, today hosted a virtual R&D Day on its novel conditionally and reversibly active antibody drug conjugate mecbotamab vedotin, targeting the receptor tyrosine kinase AXL, and its antibody targeting CTLA-4, evalstotug. The R&D Day also featured renowned key opinion leaders, Dr. Edwin Yau, Dr. Omid Hamid and Dr. Ankit Mangla.
“It is promising to see confirmed responses following mecbotamab vedotin treatment among heavily pretreated patients with tumors expressing KRAS mutations, including in a patient previously treated with a KRAS inhibitorKRAS inhibitor,” said Dr. Yau.
“Now that we are administering evalstotug doses that exceed 10 mg/kg equivalent of marketed CTLA-4 products in combination with PD-1 antibody, I continue to be gratified to observe such a low incidence and severity of immune related adverse events,” said Dr. Hamid.
“Every one of my patients who has received evalstotug has experienced clinical benefit, including an advanced melanoma patient who achieved no evidence of disease, which I consider a clinical complete response,” said Dr. Mangla.
Details of the presentation and a replay of the event will be available on BioAtla’s “Events and Presentations” website after the event.
Key R&D Day Topics and Highlights:
Phase 2 Trial of mecbotamab vedotin, CAB-AXL-ADC, in NSCLC (NCT04681131) Additional expansion cohort completed evaluating AXL expression, dose and genotype
Subgroup results: AXL expression ≥1% correlated with clinical benefit in heavily pretreated patients with a median three prior lines of therapy
Initial clinical benefit observed in both Q2W and 2Q3W dosing regimens
mKRAS variant highly correlated with AXL expression
Manageable safety continues, no new safety signals identified
Phase 1/2 dose-escalation trial of evalstotug, CAB-CTLA-4 (NCT05180799) across multiple solid tumor types responsive to CTLA-4 Phase 1 dose-escalation study evaluated evalstotug monotherapy followed by combination with nivolumab, conducted in 21 patients (19 of which are evaluable patients) who experienced failure of prior PD1 treatment and a median of at least three prior lines of treatment Cleared DLT observation period at 1 gram (14.2mg/kg for 70kg person)
3 out of 8 confirmed responses at the 350mg dose level
Patients treated with ≥350mg evalstotug received more doses (mean, 7.2) compared with reported ipilimumab (3.4) or tremelimumab (4.3); no dose reductions occurred
Multiple patients on therapy with durable disease control for >1 year
Only 2 out of 21 patients experienced grade 3 immune-related adverse events; no related grade 4 or 5 events
Initial Phase 2 monotherapy data readout with two scans in treatment-refractory solid tumors at 350mg (n=17) or 700mg (n=2) (5 or 10mg/kg for 70 kg person, respectively) to evaluate safety and immune-related adverse events Low incidence (2/19) and severity of immune-related AEs observed, which is consistent with low incidence of immune-related adverse events in Phase 1
No grade 3/4 colitis, no grade 4/5 related treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs)
Across 14 different tumor types enrolled to characterize safety, observed 10 patients with stable disease
Phase 2 study exploring 700mg evalstotug + pembrolizumab in 1st line melanoma is currently enrolling
Edwin Yau, MD, PhD, is a physician-scientist at the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer CenterCancer Center where he is an assistant professor in oncology and serves as the clinical chief for Thoracic Medicine. He is involved in translational research focused on KRAS mutant lung cancers in the Department of Genetics and Genomics and a member of the Roswell Park Developmental Therapeutics research program. He served as the principal investigator of multiple clinical trials for KRAS inhibitorsKRAS inhibitors such Adagrasib and RMC-6291.
Omid Hamid, MD, is Chief, Translational Research and Immunotherapy, and Director, Melanoma TherapeuticsMelanoma Therapeutics at The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute. Dr. Hamid has been instrumental in bringing new therapies to clinic for patient benefit such as: PD-1 inhibitors (pembrolizumab, nivolumab, atezolizumab), checkpoint inhibitors (ipilimumab), therapies against tumor angiogenesis, and targeted agents that block internal processes in tumor cell’s function (BRAF/MEK). Dr. Hamid is recognized internationally as a key opinion leader in Immuno-Oncologic Drug Development and Melanoma TherapeuticsMelanoma Therapeutics.
Ankit Mangla, MD, is a medical oncologist at University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center with expertise in treating patients with melanoma and rare tumors such as Merkel cell cancer and soft tissue sarcoma. Dr. Mangla was one of the Investigators for the SWOG-1801 defining a new standard of care for patient with stage 3 melanoma. Dr. Mangla serves as editor or reviewer for Current Problems in Cancer: Case Reports Translational Oncology, Cancer Treatment and Research Communications, World Journal of Clinical Cases, Journal of Oncology Practice, Annals of Translational Oncology, and Thoracic Cancers. Dr. Mangla has been an invited lecturer, expert panelist and poster presenter at numerous annual meetings and conferences.
About Mecbotamab Vedotin
Mecbotamab vedotin, CAB-AXL-ADC, is a conditionally and reversibly active antibody drug conjugate targeting the receptor tyrosine kinase AXL. This Phase 2 stage clinical asset is targeting multiple solid tumor indications, including the treatment of soft tissue and bone sarcoma and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients who have previously progressed on PD-1/L1, EGFR or ALK inhibitor therapies. The Office of Orphan Products Development (OOPD) at FDA granted Orphan Drug Designation to mecbotamab vedotin for the treatment of soft tissue sarcoma.
About Evalstotug
Evalstotug, is a CAB anti-CTLA-4 antibody that is being developed as an immuno-oncology agent with the goal of delivering efficacy at least comparable to the approved anti-CTLA-4 antibodies, but with lower toxicities due to the CAB's tumor microenvironment-restricted activity. This may enable safer anti-CTLA-4 antibody combination therapies, such as with anti-PD-1 antibody checkpoint inhibitors, and potentially broaden the patient population tolerant to combination therapy and deliver greater efficacy. Like our other CAB candidates, this Phase 2 clinical asset is designed to be conditionally and reversibly active in the tumor microenvironment. Evalstotug is being developed as a potential therapeutic for multiple solid tumor indications that are known to be responsive to CTLA-4 treatment in combination with a PD-1 blocking agent.
About BioAtla®, Inc.
BioAtla is a global clinical-stage biotechnology company with operations in San Diego, California, and in Beijing, China through our contractual relationship with BioDuro-Sundia, a provider of preclinical development services. Utilizing its proprietary Conditionally Active Biologics (CAB) technology, BioAtla develops novel, reversibly active monoclonal and bispecific antibodies and other protein therapeutic product candidates. CAB product candidates are designed to have more selective targeting, greater efficacy with lower toxicity, and more cost-efficient and predictable manufacturing than traditional antibodies. BioAtla has extensive and worldwide patent coverage for its CAB technology and products with greater than 765 active patent matters, more than 500 of which are issued patents. Broad patent coverage in all major markets include methods of making, screening and manufacturing CAB product candidates in a wide range of formats and composition of matter coverage for specific products. BioAtla has two first-in-class CAB programs currently in Phase 2 clinical testing, mecbotamab vedotin, mecbotamab vedotin, a novel conditionally active AXL-targeted antibody-drug conjugate (CAB-AXL-ADC), and ozuriftamab vedotin, a novel conditionally active ROR2-targeted antibody-drug conjugate (CAB-ROR2-ADC). The Phase 2 stage CAB-CTLA-4 antibody, BA3071, is a novel CTLA-4 inhibitorCTLA-4 inhibitor designed to reduce systemic toxicity and potentially enable safer combination therapies with checkpoint inhibitors such as anti-PD-1 antibody. The company’s first dual CAB bispecific T-cell engager antibody, BA3182, is currently in Phase 1 development. BA3182 targets EpCAM, which is highly and frequently expressed on many adenocarcinomas while engaging human CD3 expressing T cells. BioAtla has an FDA-cleared IND for its next-gen CAB-Nectin4-ADC, BA3361, the Company’s first glycoconjugate. To learn more about BioAtla, Inc. visit www.bioatla.com.
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