MTEM - Molecular Templates Presents Interim Data from MT-6402 Phase I Study in Patients with PD-L1+ Solid Tumors at the 2024 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting; Monotherapy Activity in Checkpoint-Experienced Head and Neck Cancer Patie
AUSTIN, Texas, April 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Molecular Templates, Inc. (NASDAQ:MTEM, "Molecular Templates, " or "MTEM")), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of proprietary targeted biologic therapeutics, engineered toxin bodies ("ETBs"), to create novel therapies with potent differentiated mechanisms of action for cancer, today announced that MTEM will present a poster, "First-in-human, dose escalation and expansion study of MT-6402, a novel engineered toxin body (ETB) targeting PD-L1, in patients with PD-L1 expressing relapsed/refractory advanced solid tumors: Interim Data," at the 2024 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting taking place in San Diego, CA, and also announced monotherapy response activity in Head and Neck Cancer.
The poster highlighted the following findings from the phase I dose-escalation study of MT-6402:
- MT-6402 has been well tolerated with no drug-related Grade 4 or Grade 5 adverse events observed
- MT-6402 acts uniquely from other approved checkpoint agents. MT-6402 depletes immunosuppressive PD-L1+ immune cells and tumor cells, activates a T-effector phenotype, and remodels the tumor microenvironment to restore T-cell surveillance of the tumor.
- An early monotherapy efficacy signal in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) was identified. Nine patients with recurrent and metastatic heavily pre-treated and checkpoint-experienced HNSCC were treated in the phase I dose escalation of which two patients have confirmed durable PRs.
- 2 of the 9 patients with HNSCC treated with MT-6402 showed confirmed partial responses (one response was unconfirmed at the time of the poster's submission but has subsequently been confirmed). The patients remain on study at cycles 19 and 10, respectively (one cycle = 4 weeks), demonstrating the potential for durable ...