COMPREHENSIVE MOLECULAR SUBTYPING OF DIFFUSE LARGE B-CELL LYMPHOMA CELL LINES AND ASSOCIATION WITH TAFASITAMAB ACTIVITY (EHA 2023)
Background: Tafasitamab (tafa), an anti-CD19 immunotherapy that enhances antibody dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) and phagocytosis, achieved a 57.5% objective response rate in combination with lenalidomide in the phase 2 L- MIND trial (NCT02399085), and received accelerated US approval and conditional authorization in Europe for treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) ineligible for autologous stem cell transplant...Sensitivity data on DLBCL cell lines screened against BTK inhibitors (AVL-292, acalabrutinib, ibrutinib) were obtained from the PRISM repurposing dataset... Consistent with L-MIND clinical data, tafa was active in both GCB and non-GCB DLBCL cell lines. Additionally, tafa activity was not associated with a specific molecular subtype or mutations in TP53. Biomarker analyses are ongoing in tafa clinical trials (topMIND [NCT04809467], frontMIND [NCT04824092], firmMIND [NCT05429268]) to confirm these findings and provide further insight into genomic and immune parameters that may play a rolein response to tafa.