MORRIS PLAINS, N.J., May 19, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Immunomedics, Inc., (Nasdaq:IMMU) today announced that the Scientific Program Committee of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has selected two of the Company’s abstracts for oral presentation at two Clinical Science Symposium Sessions during their 2016 Annual Meeting, scheduled for June 3-7, 2016 at McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois.
Both abstracts are on sacituzumab govitecan, or IMMU-132, the Company’s lead antibody-drug conjugate (ADC). Sacituzumab govitecan has previously been designated by the FDA a Breakthrough Therapy for the treatment of patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) who have failed prior therapies for metastatic disease.
The first abstract is a Late-Breaking Abstract on updated results from a Phase 2 study of the ADC in patients with metastatic TNBC. This abstract has also been selected as part of the Best of ASCO Program, which features the top abstracts from this year’s ASCO Annual Meeting for their practice changing research. Results in patients with metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer will be updated in another Clinical Science Symposium Session that focuses on lung cancers. In addition to these two oral presentations, a poster presentation of results with sacituzumab govitecan in patients with metastatic small-cell lung cancer will also be given.
Details of the three presentations are listed below (all times are in Central Time):
Friday, June 3, 2016
- Therapy of refractory/relapsed metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (mTNBC) with an anti-Τrop-2-SN-38 antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), sacituzumab govitecan (IMMU-132): Phase II results (Bardia, et al.)
Session Title: Clinical Science Symposium: Future Directions in Breast Cancer Treatment: New Drugs, New Markers
Abstract # LBA509
4:30 p.m. - 4:42 p.m.
Hall D1
Saturday, June 4, 2016
- Trop-2 as a therapeutic target for the antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), sacituzumab govitecan (IMMU-132), in patients (pts) with previously treated metastatic small-cell lung cancer (mSCLC) (Starodub, et al.)
Poster Session: Lung Cancer—Non-Small Cell Local-Regional/Small Cell/Other Thoracic Cancers
Abstract #8559, Poster Board #187
8:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Hall A
Monday, June 6, 2016
- Therapy of metastatic, non-small-cell lung cancer (mNSCLC) with the anti-Τrop-2-SN-38 antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) sacituzumab govitecan (IMMU-132) (Camidge, et al.)
Session Title: Clinical Science Symposium: Raising the Bar for Targeted Therapies for Lung Cancers
Abstract #9011
2:03 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Hall B1
About Immunomedics
Immunomedics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing monoclonal antibody-based products for the targeted treatment of cancer, autoimmune disorders and other serious diseases. Immunomedics’ advanced proprietary technologies allow the Company to create humanized antibodies that can be used either alone in unlabeled or “naked” form, or conjugated with radioactive isotopes, chemotherapeutics, cytokines or toxins. Using these technologies, Immunomedics has built a pipeline of eight clinical-stage product candidates. Immunomedics’ portfolio of investigational products includes antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) that are designed to deliver a specific payload of a chemotherapeutic directly to the tumor while reducing overall toxic effects that are usually found with conventional administration of these chemotherapeutic agents. Immunomedics’ most advanced ADCs are sacituzumab govitecan (IMMU-132) and labetuzumab govitecan (IMMU-130), which are in Phase 2 trials for a number of solid tumors and metastatic colorectal cancer, respectively. IMMU-132 has received Breakthrough Therapy Designation from FDA for the treatment of patients with triple-negative breast cancer who have failed at least two prior therapies for metastatic disease. Immunomedics has a research collaboration with Bayer to study epratuzumab as a thorium-227-labeled antibody. Immunomedics has other ongoing collaborations in oncology with independent cancer study groups. The IntreALL Inter-European study group is conducting a large, randomized Phase 3 trial combining epratuzumab with chemotherapy in children with relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia at clinical sites in Australia, Europe, and Israel. Immunomedics also has a number of other product candidates that target solid tumors and hematologic malignancies, as well as other diseases, in various stages of clinical and preclinical development. These include combination therapies involving its antibody-drug conjugates, bispecific antibodies targeting cancers and infectious diseases as T-cell redirecting immunotherapies, as well as bispecific antibodies for next-generation cancer and autoimmune disease therapies, created using its patented DOCK-AND-LOCK® protein conjugation technology. The Company believes that its portfolio of intellectual property, which includes approximately 287 active patents in the United States and more than 400 foreign patents, protects its product candidates and technologies. For additional information on the Company, please visit its website at www.immunomedics.com. The information on its website does not, however, form a part of this press release.
This release, in addition to historical information, may contain forward-looking statements made pursuant to the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements, including statements regarding clinical trials (including the funding therefor, outcomes, timing or associated costs), out-licensing arrangements (including the timing and amount of contingent payments), forecasts of future operating results, potential collaborations, and capital raising activities, involve significant risks and uncertainties and actual results could differ materially from those expressed or implied herein. Factors that could cause such differences include, but are not limited to, new product development (including clinical trials outcome and regulatory requirements/actions), the Company’s dependence on business collaborations in order to further develop our products and finance our operations, the risk that we or any of our collaborators may be unable to secure regulatory approval of and market our drug candidates, risks associated with the outcome of pending litigation and competitive risks to marketed products, and availability of required financing and other sources of funds on acceptable terms, if at all, as well as the risks discussed in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company is not under any obligation, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation, to update or alter any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.