- Dr. Farrukh Awan, Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology Oncology at University of Texas Southwestern and Principal Investigator for the trial to join Actinium management for webinar
- Expansion of Iomab-ACT program with commercial CAR-T supported by ongoing MSKCC clinical trial with success implying a potential billion-dollar market opportunity in lymphodepletion
- Webinar to be held on Monday, May 20th at 8:00 AM ET
NEW YORK, May 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Actinium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE:ATNM) (Actinium or the Company), a leader in the development of Antibody Radiation Conjugates (ARCs) and other targeted radiotherapies, today announced it will host a KOL call on Monday, May 20, 2024, at 8:00 AM ET to provide updates and highlight its recently announced clinical trial to study Iomab-ACT with a leading FDA approved CAR-T cell therapy at the University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW). Iomab-ACT is an ARC that targets CD45, a marker expressed on blood cancer cells and immune cells that is intended to enable conditioning prior to cell and gene therapies such as CAR T-cell therapy and replace the non-targeted chemotherapy that is currently used for conditioning. There are six CAR-T cell therapies approved to treat patients with leukemias, lymphomas and multiple myeloma that collectively reached sales in 2023 exceeding $3.5 billion.
Dr. Farrukh Awan specializes in the treatment of patients with leukemia and lymphoma including CAR-T therapy and bone marrow transplantation. Dr. Awan will serve as principal investigator for this study that will be led by UTSW.
To date, Iomab-ACT has been studied in a clinical trial with an investigational CD19 targeting CAR-T cell therapy developed by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) under a National Institutes of Health funded grant. The trial at UTSW will be the first trial to study Iomab-ACT or any targeted radiotherapy conditioning agent with an FDA approved CAR-T therapy.
Registration for the KOL webinar can be found here or on the investor relations page of Actinium’s website here.
Iomab-ACT Phase 1 CAR-T Conditioning Results
Actinium presented results from its ongoing phase 1 trial using Iomab-ACT as conditioning prior to CD19 CAR-T therapy for patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (B-ALL) or Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) at the Tandem Meetings I Transplantation & Cellular Therapy Meetings of ASTCT and CIBMTR the combined annual meetings of the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (ASTCT) and the Center for International Blood & Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR) in February 2024. Importantly, no patients (0/4) developed immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS) of any grade, a major safety measure of the study and minimal Cytokine Release Syndrome (CRS). ICANS is observed in 25% or more of pts w/ R/R B-ALL and DLBCL treated with various currently approved CAR T-cell products. Iomab-ACT demonstrated transient depletion of peripheral blood lymphocytes and monocytes. Persistence of CAR T-cells up to 8 weeks and minimal non-hematologic toxicities have been observed to date.
