On May 16, 2019 ImaginAb Inc., a clinical stage immuno-oncology imaging company, reported it has enrolled its first patient for the Phase II clinical trial of its lead product, CD8 tracer 89Zr-Df-IAB22M2C, at City of Hope in Los Angeles County (Press release, ImaginAb, MAY 16, 2019, View Source [SID1234536415]). City of Hope is a world-renowned independent research and treatment center for cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases based in Duarte, California, where ImaginAb co-founder Anna Wu, Ph.D., is currently Chair of Molecular Imaging and Therapy.
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89Zr-Df-IAB22M2C is a first in class imaging agent that visualizes the immune system using non-invasive, whole-body in vivo PET imaging of CD8 T cells. Using its ‘Minibody’ platform, ImaginAb’s technology targets and visualizes CD8+ T-cells to provide highly-specific, quantitative assessment of the immunological status of each cancer lesion within a patient, potentially enabling treatment to be tailored quickly and specifically to the needs of that patient.
City of Hope is one of ImaginAb’s active clinical sites conducting Phase II baseline/on-treatment clinical trials investigating the utility of 89Zr-Df-IAB22M2C to image CD8 T cells prior to (baseline) and after (on-treatment) cancer patients receive immunotherapy-based treatment. Kim Margolin, M.D., clinical professor in the Department of Medical Oncology & Therapeutics Research at City of Hope, is the study’s principal investigator.
Ian Wilson, CEO of ImaginAb, said: "ImaginAb’s goal is to provide target-specific imaging agents to predict, inform, monitor and enable treatment of cancer disease more effectively. We are delighted to have enrolled and imaged our first patient in this ongoing clinical study at City of Hope, a world-class cancer center."
The trial will enroll metastatic cancer patients and will study the correlation of imaging signals observed using ImaginAb’s CD8 T-cell ImmunoPET imaging agent, standard-of-care scans, and immunohistochemistry analysis of CD8 in biopsied tissues. The trial will also measure changes in CD8+ T-cell distribution before and after immuno-oncology therapies.
For further information please contact:
ImaginAb
Ian Wilson
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +1 310 645 1211
Optimum Strategic Communications
Mary Clark, Supriya Mathur, Manel Mateus
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Phone: +44 20 3950 9144