COMPANY:

Feng Biosciences

P2 | N=28 | NCT03519997 | "OncXerna Therapeutics, Inc....announced final results from a Phase 2 trial of bavituximab plus pembrolizumab in patients with previously untreated advanced hepatocellular carcinoma and new biomarker data demonstrating that the Xerna TME Panel clearly identified trial participants more likely to benefit from treatment. The data were featured in a poster that was presented on January 20, 2023 at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium (ASCO GI)....In the study featured in the ASCO GI poster, pre-treatment tumor biopsies were analyzed using the Xerna TME Panel and findings were correlated with objective tumor response to test the hypothesis that tumors with high immune scores (immune active or immune-suppressed TME subtypes [biomarker-positive]) are more likely to respond to bavituximab plus pembrolizumab than those with low immune scores (angiogenic or immune-desert TME subtypes [biomarker-negative])."

"Genialis...is presenting new data and results this week from its biomarker discovery platform, ResponderIDTM. At the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) annual meeting, Genialis Chief Discovery Officer Luka Ausec, Ph.D. is co-presenting a poster with Exact Sciences and OncXerna Therapeutics titled, 'Xerna tumor microenvironment subtypes as a biomarker in lung cancer patients'....The poster explores the relationship between Xerna TME subtypes and DNA-based (e.g. gene variants) biomarkers in NSCLC."

P2 | N=924 | PLATFORM (NCT02678182) | "The data featured in the ESMO poster are from retrospective analyses of results from PLATFORM, a randomized Phase 2 trial that evaluated maintenance therapies such as the anti-PD-1 antibody durvalumab in esophagogastric adenocarcinoma patients treated with first-line chemotherapy....Results showed that immune score high patients had a poorer prognosis with active surveillance compared to immune score low patients. However, despite this poorer prognosis, immune score high patients had improved 6- and 12-month progression free survival and 24-month overall survival with durvalumab maintenance therapy compared to the immune score high patients that received active surveillance. Analyses in the poster also compared the predictive potential of Xerna TME Panel classifications in esophagogastric adenocarcinoma to that of classifications based on PD-L1 combined positive score (CPS) status."

P1b | N=44 | NCT03030287 | Sponsor: OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc | "Navicixizumab plus paclitaxel showed promising and durable clinical activity in a heavily pretreated patient population regardless of prior treatment (median of four prior therapies) Overall response rate (ORR) across all evaluable patients: 43% (19/44), ORR in patients previously treated with bevacizumab (Avastin®): 33% (10/30), ORR in patients previously treated with a PARP inhibitor: 45% (9/20),11 of 19 patients with partial or complete response had progressive disease as best response to immediate prior therapy. Median duration of response: 6 months. B+ classification showed enrichment of patients with tumor response. ORR in B+ vs. B- patients: 62% (8/13) vs. 25% (5/20), Best response of progressive disease in B+ vs. B- patients: 0% (0/13) vs. 30% (6/20), Median progression-free survival in B+ vs. B- patients: 9.2 months vs. 3.9 months."

"OncXerna Therapeutics, Inc...announced biomarker data demonstrating the Xerna TME Panel’s prognostic value across multiple indications in a poster presentation at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting. Data also suggest the potential for Xerna TME Panel to predict patients most likely to benefit from immune- and angiogenic-targeted therapy."

"Exact Sciences...and OncXerna Therapeutics...announced today they have entered an exclusive license agreement to bring OncXerna's Xerna TME Panel lab services to more U.S. patients. The Xerna TME (tumor microenvironment) Panel is an innovative gene expression score that helps identify patients likely to respond to anti-angiogenic and immunotherapies. The agreement allows Exact Sciences to provide more critical answers to cancer patients and physicians facing difficult therapy selection decisions supporting biopharma partners in patient selection for their therapeutic programs."