On April 25, 2025 Elevation Oncology, Inc. (Nasdaq: ELEV), an innovative oncology company focused on the discovery and development of selective cancer therapies to treat patients across a range of solid tumors with significant unmet medical needs, reported new preclinical proof-of-concept data for its novel HER3 antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), EO-1022 (Press release, Elevation Oncology, APR 25, 2025, View Source;utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=elevation-oncology-presents-preclinical-proof-of-concept-data-for-eo-1022-at-the-american-association-for-cancer-research-aacr-annual-meeting-2025 [SID1234652142]). The data will be presented in a late-breaking poster presentation at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) (Free AACR Whitepaper) Annual Meeting 2025, being held April 25-30 in Chicago, Illinois.

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"We designed EO-1022 with several notable features, including glycan site-specific conjugation and MMAE payloads, in order to address the significant need for a novel HER3 ADC that can potentially deliver improved efficacy and safety to patients with a range of solid tumors," said Joseph Ferra, President and Chief Executive Officer of Elevation Oncology. "Today, we are excited to share preclinical proof-of-concept data for EO-1022, which indicate enhanced stability and anti-tumor activity than benchmark HER3 ADCs in the models tested in vitro and in vivo. We believe these findings support the potential of EO-1022 in treating multiple HER3-expressing cancers and look forward to progressing this program toward the clinic."

EO-1022 is an ADC containing seribantumab, a fully human IgG2 anti-HER3 monoclonal antibody, which is site-specifically conjugated at glycan to the monomethyl auristatin E (MMAE) payload with a drug-to-antibody ratio (DAR) of 4. Elevation Oncology designed EO-1022 leveraging the site-specific ADC technology platform licensed from Synaffix B.V. Elevation Oncology is developing EO-1022 for the treatment of solid tumors that express HER3, including breast cancer and non-small cell lung cancer. Elevation Oncology expects to file an Investigational New Drug (IND) application for EO-1022 in 2026.

In a poster titled, "Preclinical discovery and characterization of EO-1022, a site-specific glycan-conjugated anti-HER3 vc-MMAE ADC for treating solid tumors," Elevation Oncology scientists will present in vitro and in vivo data that show:

EO-1022 is highly stable in human serum, with a homogenous DAR of 4 and minimal free payload compared to seribantumab-vcMMAE and patritumab-DXd, two benchmark HER3 ADCs, both of which use stochastic conjugation. These findings illustrate that a key feature of EO-1022 is minimal systemic exposure to free payload, potentially resulting in reduced payload-associated toxicity in patients and an improved safety profile.
EO-1022 exhibits potent in vitro cytotoxicity that is dependent on HER3 expression levels.
EO-1022 elicits anti-tumor activity in in vivo models of low, medium and high HER3 expression levels, including in a patient derived xenograft (PDX) model of low HER3-expressing EGFR-mutant lung cancer.
The poster presentation is now available in the "Publications" section of Elevation Oncology’s website: View Source

About EO-1022

Elevation Oncology is developing EO-1022, a potentially differentiated HER3 ADC for the treatment of HER3-expressing solid tumors, including breast cancer and non-small cell lung cancer. EO-1022 consists of seribantumab, a fully human IgG2 anti-HER3 antibody, site-specifically conjugated at glycan to the MMAE payload with a DAR of 4. It leverages seribantumab’s desirable internalization properties and advanced site-specific ADC technology which makes possible the use of the potent cytotoxic MMAE payload. Elevation Oncology expects to file an IND application in 2026.