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Gracell Biotechnologies Presents Longer-Term Results for FasTCAR-T GC012F in B-Cell Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma at EHA2023, Highlighting 100% Overall Response Rate

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星期六, 六月 10, 2023

SAN DIEGO, Calif., and SUZHOU and SHANGHAI, China, June 10, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gracell Biotechnologies Inc. ("Gracell" or the "Company", NASDAQ: GRCL), a global clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing innovative and highly efficacious cell therapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune disease, today presented longer-term follow-up data from a first-in-human study evaluating GC012F, a CD19 and B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA) dual-targeted autologous CAR-T therapeutic candidate, in patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (r/r B-NHL) as an oral presentation (abstract #S234) at the European Hematology Association (EHA2023) Congress.

Key Points: 
  • GC012F is manufactured through a novel next-day FasTCAR process and demonstrated a younger phenotype of CAR-T cells and highly effective tumor killing activity in preclinical animal models.
  • In the single-arm, open label investigator-initiated trial (IIT), nine r/r B-NHL patients were enrolled and treated with GC012F, and completed at least three months of follow-up.
  • All patients’ lymphoma samples expressed CD19, and samples from seven out of eight tested patients expressed BCMA.
  • GC012F also continued to show a favorable safety profile:
    Cytokine release syndrome (CRS) was mostly Grade 1 (56%; 5/9).