Celyad to Present New CYAD-01 Data from THINK Study in Relapsed/Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia at 2018 ASH Annual Meeting
- Oral presentation highlighting updated THINK study data evaluating CYAD-01 without preconditioning chemotherapy in relapsed or refractory (r/r) acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
- As of July 2018, three out of seven (42%) r/r AML patients evaluable for response achieved a complete response (CRh/CRi) following treatment with the per-protocol dose of CYAD-01
- Overall, five out of seven (71%) patients achieved meaningful decrease in bone marrow blasts
- Company to host Analyst/Investor event on Monday, December 3, 2018
Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium - Celyad (Euronext Brussels and Paris, and Nasdaq: CYAD), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of specialized CAR-T cell-based therapies, today announced that two abstracts detailing updated clinical results from the Phase 1 THINK dose-escalation trial and anticipated clinical trials for the CYAD-01 program will be presented at the 60th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting in San Diego, December 1-4, 2018. Company management will also review the results of the THINK trial and provide an update on Celyad’s clinical development program for CYAD-01 at an Analyst/Investor event, which will also be available via webcast on December 3, 2018.
“We are encouraged by the preliminary THINK study data evaluating CYAD-01, without preconditioning chemotherapy in patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia,” said Dr. Christian Homsy, CEO of Celyad. “The data supplement a growing body of evidence that CYAD-01 shows encouraging clinical activity and is well-tolerated and suggests its potential for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia, a challenging disease with limited therapeutic options. In addition to this important milestone, we continue to investigate CYAD-01 in alternative protocols to further optimize its clinical benefit.”
Updated data from the THINK trial of CYAD-01 in patients with r/r AML will be presented by Principal Investigator David A. Sallman, M.D., of the Moffitt Cancer Center, on December 3, 2018. The presentation will include new information on safety, activity and correlative science data of the complete dose-escalation segment of the trial.
Top-line data from the abstract as of a data cut-off date of July 31, 2018, included:
- Of the seven response-evaluable r/r AML patients enrolled in the trial who received the per-protocol dose of CYAD-01, the best overall response rate was 42% (three patients). Two additional patients experienced important clinical benefit with hematologic improvement and bone marrow blasts decrease, leading to clinical activity of 71% (five patients).
- One patient experienced a complete remission with partial hematologic recovery (CRh) and two patients experienced a complete remission with incomplete marrow recovery (CRi). One CRh and one CRi occurred at dose level 1 (DL1) with an additional CRi at dose level 3. All three responders achieved a response by day 29 (i.e., prior to the third administration of CYAD-01).
- The patient with CRh from DL1 was bridged to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) on day +97 post treatment with CYAD-01. This patient remains in durable complete molecular remission (CRMRD-) for more than one year (ongoing). A detailed case report of this patient was published in Haematologica in April 2018.
- Of the two additional r/r AML patients who experienced a clinical benefit, one patient had a decrease in blast counts from 24% to 10%, while a second patient had a decrease from 9.8% to 5.5%. Disease stabilization in these patients were observed for three months and over four months (ongoing), respectively. Both patients were treated in dose level 2 of the study.
- Overall, 12 patients with hematological malignancies (AML, myelodysplastic syndrome and multiple myeloma) treated with CYAD-01 in the cohort had reached the safety follow-up. The most common treatment-related adverse events (AEs) included pyrexia, cytokine release syndrome (CRS), hypoxia, lymphopenia, fatigue and nausea. CRS occurred in five patients (three grade 1/2 AEs and two grade 3 AEs), with rapid resolution following the appropriate treatment, including tocilizumab. Overall, five patients experienced grade 3/4 treatment-related AEs. No neurotoxicity AEs were observed in patients treated with CYAD-01.
CYAD-01 and THINK Trial Design
CYAD-01 is an investigational CAR-T therapy in which a patient's T cells are engineered to express the chimeric antigen receptor NKG2D, a receptor expressed on natural killer (NK) cells that binds to eight stress-induced ligands expressed on tumor cells.
The THINK trial (NCT03018405) is an open-label, dose-escalation Phase 1 trial assessing the safety and clinical activity of multiple CYAD-01 administrations without prior preconditioning in two parallel cohorts: i) patients with hematological malignancies, including r/r AML, and ii) patients with metastatic solid tumors. The dose escalation segment of the study evaluates three dose levels (300 million, 1 billion and 3 billion cells per injection) of one cycle of three CYAD-01 administrations with two-week intervals.
ASH Analyst/Investor Event and Webcast Information
Celyad will host an Analyst/Investor event on Monday, December 3, 2018, beginning at 8:30 p.m. PT to review data presented at ASH. The event will be webcast live and can be accessed under Events & Webcasts in the Investors section of the Company’s website.
A complete list of Celyad and collaborator presentations to be made at ASH appears below:
Oral Presentation
Remissions in Relapse/Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patients Following Treatment with NKG2D CAR-T Therapy Without a Prior Preconditioning Chemotherapy (Abstract #111326 – Publication Number 902)
Presenter: David A. Sallman, M.D., Moffitt Cancer Center
Date: Monday, December 3, 2018, 4:45 p.m. Pacific Time
Location: Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, Seaport Ballroom F
Poster Presentation
Phase 1 Studies Assessing the Safety and Clinical Activity of Multiple Doses of a NKG2D-based CAR-T Therapy, CYAD-01, in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (Abstract #114747 – Publication Number 1398)
Presenter: Jason B Brayer, MD, Moffitt Cancer Center
Date: Saturday, December 1, 2018, 6:15 PM - 8:15 PM
Location: San Diego Convention Center, Hall GH