IASO Bio Gains NMPA Approval for Multiple Myeloma Treatment IND

01 April 2024 | Monday | News


Equecabtagene Autoleucel, a novel CAR T-cell therapy, receives regulatory nod for expanded indication in earlier treatment lines for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma
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IASO Bio, a biopharmaceutical company engaged in discovering, developing, manufacturing and marketing innovative cell therapies and antibody products, announced that China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has approved the Investigational New Drug (IND) application for Equecabtagene Autoleucel (IASO Bio R&D code: CT103A), a self-developed fully-human anti-B cell maturation antigen (BCMA) chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) autologous T-cell injection, for an expanded indication in treating relapsed and/or refractory multiple myeloma (R/RMM) patients who have undergone 1-2 lines of prior therapies and are refractory to lenalidomide.

The New Drug Application (NDA) for FUCASO ® (Equecabtagene Autoleucel) was approved by NMPA for the treatment of relapsed and/or refractory multiple myeloma (R/R MM) who received ≥3 lines of prior therapies containing at least one proteasome inhibitor and an immunomodulatory agent on June 30, 2023. The NDA approval was based on the data from the pivotal FUMANBA-1 study (CTR20192510, NCT05066646) conducted at multiple sites in China. According to the updated long-term follow-up data of the study published at the 2023 International Myeloma Society (IMS) Annual Meeting, as of December 31, 2022, among the 103 efficacy-evaluable patients, the overall response rate (ORR) was 96.1%, and the stringent complete response/complete response (sCR/CR) rate was 77.7%; in 91 participants without prior CAR-T therapy, ORR was 98.9%, 82.4% of patients reaching sCR/CR, and the 12-month progression-free survival (PFS) rate was 85.5%; 94.2% (97/103) of patients achieved minimal residual disease (MRD) negativity, and all sCR/CR patients achieved MRD negativity. Among the 105 participants, only one experienced ≥ Grade 3 cytokine release syndrome (CRS), with no ≥ Grade 3 immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS). Pharmacokinetics indicated that Equecabtagene Autoleucel persisted in vivo, with gene copy numbers detectable in 40% of participants at 24 months after infusion.

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