OBI Pharma Announces Presentations at ESMO Asia 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting for OBI-833, a Novel Anti-Globo H Targeted Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine
Theseresults will be presented by the lead investigators of OBI Pharma's novel anti-Globo H therapeutic cancer vaccine, OBI-833.
Presentations to highlight the OBI-833 Phase 1 clinical study results in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and the dose escalation cohort
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Nov. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- OBI Pharma, Inc. (TPEx: 4174), a leader in Glycosphingolipid Immuno-Oncology therapeutics targeting the Globo Series antigens (Globo H and SSEA-4), today announced that data from the OBI-833 Phase 1 clinical study targeting the Globo H antigen in lung cancer will be presented at the European Society of Clinical Oncology Asia (ESMO Asia) 2020 Virtual Scientific Program from November 20-22, 2020.
These results will be presented by the lead investigators of OBI Pharma's novel anti-Globo H therapeutic cancer vaccine, OBI-833.
"Based upon our anti-Globo H targeted approaches in cancers of high unmet needs, OBI Pharma is proud to have presentations on the progress of our trial presented at ESMO-Asia 2020 for our novel therapeutic cancer vaccine, OBI-833." Ming-Tain Lai, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at OBI Pharma stated, "In the trial, OBI-833 demonstrated a favorable safety profile and generated detectable anti-Globo H IgM/IgG responses. In addition, OBI-833 can elicit a beneficial immune response in NSCLC patients and had rendered some TKI-treated patients a durable stable disease status. We look forward to providing updates of our study, which we believe could offer potential therapeutic benefits to patients suffering from lung cancer."
Presentation number: 397P / Poster: ID 680
Title: A phase I cohort expansion trial of OBI-833 in non-small cell lung cancer patients
Presenter: Ching-Liang Ho MD, et.al. Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Session Title: E-poster Display session - Thoracic tumours, metastatic
Session Date and Time: Friday, November 20, 2020. 9:00 – 20:00 Eastern Time
Presentation number: 71MO / Oral: ID 798
Title: OBI-833 was safe and immunogenic, without treatment-related SAEs, in a Phase 1 dose-escalation trial
Presenter: Her-Shyong Shiah, MD*., et.al. Department of Hematology and Oncology, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
*current affiliation: Department of Hematology and Oncology, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Session Title: Mini-oral session - Developmental and Precision Medicine
Session Date and Time: Friday, November 20, 2020. 19:52 – 19:57 Eastern Time
The above poster presentations will be available online at www.obipharma.com on November 23, 2020
About OBI Pharma
OBI Pharma, Inc., is a Taiwan biopharmaceutical company that was established in 2002. Its mission is to develop and license novel therapeutic agents for unmet medical needs against cancer targets such as Globo Series (including Globo H, SSEA-3 and SSEA-4), AKR1C3, and other promising targets.
The company's novel first-in-class immuno-oncology portfolio against Globo H includes: Adagloxad Simolenin (formerly OBI-822) and OBI-833, a Globo H active immunotherapy vaccine; OBI-888 (Globo H mAb) and OBI-999 (Globo H ADC). The company's novel first-in-class AKR1C3 targeted therapy is OBI-3424 (small-molecule prodrug) that selectively releases a potent DNA alkylating agent in the presence of the aldo-keto reductase 1C3 (AKR1C3) enzyme. Additional information can be found at www.obipharma.com.
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