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First approval for risankizumab

March 27, 2019 by Janice Reichert

AbbVie has announced that SKYRIZI (risankizumab) was granted its first approval. The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare approved risankizumab for the treatment of plaque psoriasis, generalized pustular psoriasis, erythrodermic psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis in adult patients who have an inadequate response to conventional therapies. AbbVie is leading the development and commercialization of SKYRIZI, which is included in a collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim.

Risankizumab is a humanized IgG1 monoclonal antibody that targets IL-23. The approval in Japan is based on efficacy and safety data from Phase 2 and Phase 3 clinical trials, sustaIMM, ultIMMa-1 and IMMspire, evaluating SKYRIZI in Japanese patients with plaque psoriasis, generalized pustular psoriasis and erythrodermic psoriasis, as well as a global Phase 2 study in patients with active psoriatic arthritis.

Marketing applications were submitted for risankizumab in both the EU and US, and regulatory decisions are anticipated in the first half of 2019. The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has announced that it adopted a positive opinion for SKYRIZI for treatment of moderate to severe plaque psoriasis in adult patients who are candidates for systemic therapy.

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Filed Under: Ab news, Approvals Tagged With: approved antibodies, risankizumab

BLA submission started for leronlimab as part of combination therapy for patients with HIV

March 27, 2019 by Janice Reichert

CytoDyn Inc. has submitted the non-clinical portion of a biologics license application (BLA) for leronlimab (700 mg dose) in combination with highly active antiretroviral therapy for treatment of patients with human immunodeficientcy virus (HIV).  ‘Rolling’ BLA submission is a benefit of leronlimab’s Fast Track drug designation, which was granted by the US Food and Drug Administration for this indication. CytoDyn is working to complete the clinical, and chemistry, manufacturing and controls sections of the BLA. Leronlimab, a humanized IgG4 monoclonal antibody, blocks CCR5. The chemokine receptor CCR5 is the principal HIV co-receptor, but it has potential as a drug target for other diseases, such as cancer and immune-mediated disorders.

As recently announced by CytoDyn, clinical study data has shown that a weekly dose of 525 mg and 700 mg of leronlimab yielded approximately a 90% response rate for HIV-infected patients who pass the first 10 weeks of monotherapy without virologic failure. Approximately 30% of patients fail within the first 10 weeks of monotherapy on a 525 mg dosage and 17% at a dosage of 700 mg. Patients who pass the first 10 weeks of monotherapy on a 525 mg dose have reached an average total of 32 weeks with sustained viral load suppression.

CytoDyn is also developing leronlimab as a treatment for graft-vs.-host disease (GVHD) and triple-negative breast cancer. A Phase 2 study (NCT02737306 ) of the safety and efficacy of leronlimab for prophylaxis of acute GVHD in patients undergoing reduced intensity conditioning allogeneic stem-cell transplantation has an estimated primary completion date of December 2019.  A Phase 1b/2 study (NCT03838367) of leronlimab combined with carboplatin in patients with CCR5+ metastatic triple negative breast cancer is not yet recruiting patients.

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Filed Under: Ab news, Food and Drug Administration Tagged With: antibody therapeutics, Food and Drug Administration

Marketing application submitted for brolucizumab, an anti-VEGF-A antibody for macular degeneration

March 21, 2019 by Janice Reichert

The European Medicines Agency’s March 2019 summary of applications for new human medicines under evaluation by the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use indicates that an application for brolucizumab as a ophthalmological is undergoing review.

Brolucizumab, a humanized scFv that targets all isoforms of vascular endothelial growth factor-A, has been evaluated in clinical studies as a treatment for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD). In October 2018, Novartis released 96-week results from the Phase 3 HAWK (NCT02307682) and HARRIER (NCT02434328) studies that reaffirmed positive 48-week findings. The two studies included more than 1,800 patients in comparing the efficacy and safety of intravitreal injections of 6 mg brolucizumab or 3 mg brolucizumab (HAWK study only) versus 2 mg aflibercept in patients with nAMD. The primary efficacy endpoint of the studies, non-inferiority to aflibercept (EYLEA®) in mean change in best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) at week 48, was met. The 96-week results indicate patients administered brolucizumab maintained robust visual gains, with mean change in BCVA of 5.9 letters for brolucizumab 6 mg versus 5.3 letters for aflibercept in the HAWK study, and 6.1 letters versus 6.6 letters, respectively, in the HARRIER study. Superior reductions in retinal fluid and central subfield thickness (CST) demonstrated at 48 weeks were reaffirmed at 96 weeks. The percentage of patients with nAMD that had intra-retinal fluid and/or sub-retinal fluid was 24% for brolucizumab 6 mg vs. 37% for aflibercept in HAWK (p=0.0001) and 24% vs. 39%, respectively, in the HARRIER study (P<0.0001). Absolute reductions in CST from baseline were -175 µm for brolucizumab 6 mg versus -149 µm for aflibercept in HAWK (p=0.0057) and -198 µm versus -155 µm, respectively, in the HARRIER study (P<0.0001).

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Filed Under: Ab news, European Medicines Agency Tagged With: brolucizumab, European Medicines Agency, regulatory review

Biologics license application submitted for eptinezumab, an anti-CGRP antibody for migraine prevention

February 25, 2019 by Janice Reichert

Alder BioPharmaceuticals has submitted a biologics license application (BLA) for eptinezumab, a humanized IgG1 monoclonal antibody that targets calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), for migraine prevention. If the US Food and Drug Administration grants approval, Alder will be on track to launch the drug in Q1 2020. The BLA included data from the PROMISE 1 and PROMISE 2 studies, which evaluated the effects of eptinezumab in episodic migraine patients (n=888) or chronic migraine patients (n=1,072), respectively.  In PROMISE 1, the primary and key secondary endpoints were met, and the safety and tolerability were similar to placebo, while in PROMISE 2, the primary and all key secondary endpoints were met, and the safety and tolerability was consistent with earlier eptinezumab studies.

Alder announced one-year results from the PROMISE 1 study in June 2018, which indicated that, following the first quarterly infusion, episodic migraine patients treated with 300 mg eptinezumab experienced 4.3 fewer monthly migraine days (MMDs) from a baseline of 8 MMDs, compared to 3.2 fewer MMDs for placebo from baseline (p= 0.0001). At one year after the third and fourth quarterly infusions, patients treated with 300 mg eptinezumab experienced further gains in efficacy, with a reduction of 5.2 fewer MMDs compared to 4.0 fewer MMDs for placebo-treated patients.  In addition, ~31% of episodic migraine patients achieved, on average per month, 100% reduction of migraine days from baseline compared to ~ 21% for placebo. New 6-month results from the PROMISE 2 study were also released in June 2018.  These results indicated that, after the first quarterly infusion, chronic migraine patients dosed with 300 mg of eptinezumab experienced 8.2 fewer MMDs, from a baseline of 16 MMDs, compared to 5.6 fewer MMDs for placebo from baseline (p <.0001). A further reduction in MMDs was seen following a second infusion; 8.8 fewer MMDs for patients dosed with 300 mg compared to 6.2 fewer MMDs for those with placebo. In addition, ~ 21% of chronic migraine patients achieved, on average, 100% reduction of MMDs from baseline compared to 9% for placebo after two quarterly infusions of 300 mg of eptinezumab.

If approved, eptinezumab would become the fourth antibody therapeutic for migraine prevention on the US market, following the approval of erenumab-aooe (Aimovig; Novartis), galcanezumab-gnlm (Emgality; Eli Lilly & Company) and fremanezumab-vfrm (Ajovy; Teva Pharmaceuticals) in 2018.

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Filed Under: Ab news, Approvals, Food and Drug Administration, Uncategorized Tagged With: eptinezumab, Food and Drug Administration, migraine

New antibody-drug conjugate, polatuzumab vedotin, enters FDA review

February 20, 2019 by Janice Reichert

Roche’s biologics license application (BLA) for polatuzumab vedotin in combination with bendamustine plus Rituxan® (rituximab) (BR) for the treatment of people with relapsed or refractory (R/R) diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) has been accepted and granted a priority review by the US Food and Drug Administration. A decision on approval of the BLA is expected by August 19, 2019. Developed in collaboration with Seattle Genetics, polatuzumab vedotin is composed of a humanized anti-CD79b IgG1 antibody conjugated to the antimitotic agent monomethyl auristatin E. The antibody’s target is highly expressed on B cells of patients with lymphoma. Polatuzumab vedotin was granted FDA’s Breakthrough Therapy designation,  the European Medicines Agency (EMA)’s PRIME designation, and US and EU Orphan Drug designations for DLBCL. A marketing application for polatuzumab vedotin is undergoing review by EMA.

The BLA is based on positive clinical data from a randomized Phase 1/2 study (NCT02257567/GO29365),  which evaluated polatuzumab vedotin administered by IV infusion in combination with standard doses of BR or obinutuzumab in patients with R/R follicular lymphoma (FL) or DLBCL. Study results indicated that median overall survival was over one year in people with R/R DLBCL not eligible for a hematopoietic stem cell transplant who received the combination of polatuzumab vedotin and BR, and less than 5 month for those in the BR arm of the study (12.4 vs. 4.7 months, hazard ratio (HR)=0.42; 95% CI 0.24-0.75). In addition, polatuzumab vedotin plus BR increased median progression-free survival (PFS) and led to a 66% reduction in risk of disease worsening or death compared to BR alone (median PFS: 7.6 months vs. 2.0 months; HR=0.34; 95% CI 0.20-0.57), and patients treated with polatuzumab vedotin plus BR showed a longer time between first response to treatment and disease worsening than those receiving BR alone (investigator assessed median duration of response: 10.3 months vs. 4.1 months; HR=0.44).

The combination of polatuzumab vedotin with R-CHP protocol (rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin and prednisone) versus R-CHOP (rituximab-cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine and prednisone) in DLBCL patients is currently being investigated in the Phase 3 POLARIX (NCT03274492) study. The primary endpoint is PFS. Secondary outcome measures include PFS, compete response and overall survival. The estimated primary completion date of the study is December 2019.

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