RE: Looooong road ahead15 Apr 2025 10:05
Utter nonsense Aldebaran. Yes, they are spending a lot of money on trials. Thats how it is when you have billion dollar assets! Patient 1 is coming up to 8 weeks (survival) and a significant data point including efficacy. A huge milestone.
The material disparity between what you are saying and what I think is that you are working on a linear basis. On average trial data. On this treatment being similar to others and therefore good enough to use going forward and something big pharma may buy, but that HG-CT-1 is nothing outstanding.
The fact is pre-clinical results were incredible. Complete Molecular Response in the humanised mice. Furthermore, the safety has already been confirmed in human patient one. Lets be honest, the patient would likely have died if it wasn't working. They would NOT be looking at P2 if data was not positive. FDA would be notified and the trial would be halted.
Over at senti-bio they'ew working on a CAR NK treatment which would provide an off-the-shelf treatment for AML sufferers making slicker to deliver than HEMO CAR T. Sounds threatening to HEMO?! Their results are excellent on the first 3 patients which is great hear as their treatment has the same target protein to us. So how does their incredible first cohort results suggest about HEMO CAR T? Same target? I think the safety profile was the biggest initial worry and we've passed that already!
However, CAR NK is not a long term solution. CAR NKs typically target 3-6m efficacy so their use is limited. In contrast CAR T cells essentially don't stop working. The target duration of response is difficult to project but HEMO will be looking far in excess of 12 months. Personally (and Im sure Vlad is the same), I'm hoping years. Which for r/r AML would be phenomenal. Current best in class treatment for AML provides a an estimated 6 month efficacy. CAR T is much more effective than CAR NK and is the ideal longer term solution for those AML sufferers with no other options for treatment.
So when considering HEMO CAR T could (I believe will) be best in class and the new gold standard of treatment for r/r AML you're telling me big pharma are not already all over this already?
If Vlad can prove to the VCs/big pharma p1 has Complete Molecular Response (99.9% AML blasts destroyed) then the cash funding offers will be rolling in rather than us chasing it. Not long til Vlad releases the kraken. IMO.
*Senti RNS December
Three AML patients have been treated at the lowest dose level (1.0 billion CAR+ NK cells per dose) and, as of the data cutoff date of September 19, 2024, two achieved complete remission (“CR”), confirmed by bone marrow biopsy, which includes blast reduction and recovery of blood cells to normal ranges. In addition, both patients were assessed as measurable residual disease (“MRD”) negative after treatment, which is defined as no detectable cancer cells present in a bone marrow sample by the most sensitive locally a