Although HER2-targeted therapies such as Herceptin® (trastuzumab) have dramatically improved outcomes for solid cancer patients with HER2 overexpression, it remains a challenge to cure the HER2 positive cancer patients with resistance to current HER2-targeted therapies. These results suggest that YH32367 could be a promising therapeutic for HER2-positive cancer patients, especially with HER2 drug resistance as an effective HER2-targeted therapy. Phase I clinical study is expected to begin in 2022.
YH32367 also showed superior efficacies on immune cells activation as well as tumor growth inhibition in both HER2-expressing tumor-bearing hPBMC humanized mice and h4-1BB knock-in mice models compared to the equimolar dosing of trastuzumab and benchmark 4-1BB agonistic antibodies. In conclusion, YH32367 exhibited potent in vitro and vivo effect through tumor-directed T cell activation. It suggests that YH32367 could be promising to develop for the patients with HER2 positive cancer as an effective HER2-directed therapy.