At least24 Oct 2018 20:10
We are not Adaptimmune... however their mcap still dwarfs ours despite them getting a right market kicking on this data.... yup you would never ever know scancell has a beyond expectation successful trial already under its belt with a product that works in SCIB1 all I can think is it is all due to fashion CI's are in and cell therapies are all it.... anyways on data like this people are going to have to look elsewhere for solutions...
'Adaptimmune Therapeutics plc (NASDAQ:ADAP) fell $3.21 (30%) to $7.55 on Monday after reporting that zero of 17 evaluable patients achieved a response across the first two dose cohorts of three Phase I trials evaluating the company's MAGE-A10 and MAGE-A4 SPEAR T cell therapies to treat various cancers. Data were presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology meeting in Munich.
Among 11 evaluable patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), melanoma or head and neck cancer in two Phase I trials of MAGE-A10, eight patients had disease progression, one patient died of pneumonia unrelated to treatment, one patient had stable disease at week four but then progressed, and one patient had stable disease at weeks four and eight but progressed at week 12. Seven patients had serious adverse events, including two with cytokine release syndrome (CRS) and one with hemoptysis.
Among six evaluable patients with ovarian cancer in a Phase I basket trial of MAGE-A4, there were four cases of stable disease and two cases of disease progression. Four patients had serious adverse events, including one with treatment-related muscular weakness and one with treatment-related CRS and encephalopathy.
MAGE-A10 comprises T cells modified to express TCRs targeting melanoma-associated antigen A10 (MAGEA10) and MAGE-A4 comprises T cells modified to express TCRs targeting MAGEA4.
Adaptimmune said all three trials have advanced to their respective third dose cohorts. The company added that the benefit of its T cell therapies may become evident at higher cell doses where it expects to see higher T cell expansion.'