REHOVOT, Israel, July 15, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Todos Medical Ltd. (OTCQB: TOMDF), a clinical-stage in-vitro diagnostic company focused on the development of blood tests for the early detection of cancer and neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), today announced positive results from a pre-specified interim analysis of 20 subjects from an ongoing 40-subject outpatient study evaluating the relationship between LymPro Test™ (LymPro) scores with amyloid PET imaging scores. LymPro measures cell cycle dysfunction in peripheral lymphocytes. The data revealed strong and statistically significant correlation between LymPro scores and amyloid PET neuroimaging cSUVR scores (r = -0.849; p = 0.00000216).
The study is being conducted under the direction of Dr. Thomas Arendt at the University of Leipzig in Germany, with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia patients evaluated in the clinic of the Neurobiological Research group in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. Todos Medical expects Leipzig to complete patient enrollment in the second half of 2019, and to disclose full results in a future scientific conference. The study is being sponsored by Todos Medical’s joint venture company, Breakthrough Diagnostics, Inc. (Breakthrough). Todos Medical has exercised its option to acquire full ownership of Breakthrough from Amarantus Bioscience Holdings, Inc., and is in the process of completing the acquisition.
“While the pre-specified interim analysis findings are preliminary, these strong correlative LymPro Test results suggest an underlying association between cell cycle dysfunction (CCD) as measured in lymphocytes with the histological evidence of CCD occurring in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. This intermediary correlation with amyloid plaque pathology measured ante mortem by amyloid PET neuroimaging is encouraging, considering the documented neuropathological concurrence of CCD and β-amyloid pathology in AD patients. Given that previous research shows LymPro distinguishes healthy older controls from MCI and AD patients, and that this study population represents routine clinical practice, we are very excited by these findings,” said Dr. Paula Trzepacz, incoming Chief Medical Officer for Todos Medical.
“If confirmed at study completion, these results suggest that LymPro will be a useful adjunctive biological diagnostic test that adds confidence to a clinical AD diagnosis. Importantly, LymPro would be a convenient and more cost-effective approach to pre-qualify patients enrolling in Alzheimer’s clinical trials. Such enrichment of the study population screened for trial inclusion could drastically reduce the time and cost of recruiting patients for Alzheimer’s therapeutic studies – a key need for the biopharmaceutical industry,” she added. “We look forward to completing enrollment of the remaining 20 subjects to confirm these encouraging results as we prepare to launch LymPro as an investigational use only (IUO) biomarker assay for patient selection in clinical trials.”
About Todos Medical Ltd.
Todos Medical Ltd., headquartered in Rehovot, Israel, is a cancer in-vitro-diagnostic company engaging in the development of a series of blood tests for the early detection of a variety of cancers and has initiated the development of blood tests for neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, through Breakthrough Diagnostics, Inc., its joint venture with Amarantus Bioscience Holdings, Inc. The company has developed two cancer screening tests based on TBIA (Todos Biochemical Infrared Analyses), a method for cancer screening using peripheral blood analysis. The TBIA screening method is based on the cancer’s influence on the immune system, which triggers biochemical changes in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and plasma. This proprietary and patented method incorporates biochemistry, physics and signal processing. The company’s two cancer screening tests, TM-B1 and TM-B2, have received the CE mark. Breakthrough Diagnostics is developing the Alzheimer’s blood diagnostic LymPro Test®.
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About Breakthrough Diagnostics, Inc.
Breakthrough Diagnostics, Inc. is a joint venture owned by Amarantus Bioscience Holdings, Inc. (OTCPK: AMBS) (80.01%) and Todos Medical Ltd. (19.99%). Breakthrough has been assigned the intellectual property and other rights to LymPro Test®, a diagnostic blood test for Alzheimer’s disease, as well as rights to other neurological diagnostics testing intellectual property. Todos Medical has provided Amarantus with notice of Todos’s decision to exercise its exclusive option to acquire the 80.01% of Breakthrough Diagnostics that it currently does not own.
The Lymphocyte Proliferation Test (LymPro Test™) is a diagnostic blood test that determines the ability of peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) and monocytes to withstand an exogenous mitogenic stimulation that induces them to enter the cell cycle. It is believed that certain diseases, most notably Alzheimer's disease, are the result of compromised cellular machinery that leads to aberrant cell cycle re-entry by neurons, which then leads to apoptosis. LymPro is unique in the use of peripheral blood lymphocytes as a surrogate for neuronal cell function, suggesting a common relationship between PBLs and neurons in the brain.
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