ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Immunomic Therapeutics, Inc. (ITI) announced today that it will participate at the World Vaccine Congress Washington being held virtually May 4-6, 2021. CEO and Co-Founder Bill Hearl, Ph.D., will present a talk titled, “Adaptive T-cell immunotherapy for newly diagnosed glioblastoma: Using targeted antigen presentation to enhance immune responses,” at 15:00 on May 4, 2021.
In addition, Immunomic Therapeutics’ Why We Vax, a non-profit whose mission is to help educate communities with research backed facts on vaccines, board member, Dr. Michael Miller will be participating on a panel titled, “Vaccinating Against Misinformation,” at 14:00 on May 6, 2021.
“Vaccines are one of the safest, most widely-adopted health care practices in the world. Why We Vax will help spread the message that vaccines are rigorously tested and provide the best defense against diseases, particularly indicative during this unprecedented time,” said Dr. William Hearl, Why We Vax Chairman, Immunomic Therapeutics CEO, and experienced vaccinologist.
The World Vaccine Congress Washington is a multi-faceted conference experience with over 300 industry leading speakers, exclusive interviews, world leading presentations, live panel debates, and virtual face to face meetings.
Presentation details are as follows:
Dr. Bill Hearl Presentation:
Title: Adaptive T-cell immunotherapy for newly diagnosed glioblastoma: Using targeted antigen presentation to enhance immune responses
Track: Cancer Immunotherapy
Date and Time: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 15:00
Why We Vax’ Board Member Michael Miller Panel Participation:
Title: Vaccinating Against Misinformation
Track: Vaccine Safety
Date and Time: Thursday, May 6, 2021 14:00
About UNITE
ITI’s investigational UNITE platform, or UNiversal Intracellular Targeted Expression, works by fusing pathogenic antigens with the Lysosomal Associated Membrane Protein, an endogenous protein in humans, for immune processing. In this way, ITI’s vaccines (DNA or RNA) have the potential to utilize the body’s natural biochemistry to develop a broad immune response including antibody production, cytokine release and critical immunological memory. This approach could put UNITE technology at the crossroads of immunotherapies in a number of illnesses, including cancer, allergy and infectious diseases. UNITE is currently being employed in Phase II clinical trials as a cancer immunotherapy. ITI is also collaborating with academic centers and biotechnology companies to study the use of UNITE in cancer types of high mortality, including cases where there are limited treatment options like glioblastoma and acute myeloid leukemia. ITI believes that these early clinical studies may provide a proof of concept for UNITE therapy in cancer, and if successful, set the stage for future studies, including combinations in these tumor types and others. Preclinical data is currently being developed to explore whether LAMP nucleic acid constructs may amplify and activate the immune response in highly immunogenic tumor types and be used to create immune responses to tumor types that otherwise do not provoke an immune response.
About ITI-1000 and the Phase 2 (ATTAC-II) Study
ITI-1000 is an investigational dendritic cell vaccine therapy currently in a Phase 2 clinical trial (ATTAC-II) for the treatment of GBM. ITI-1000 was developed using Immunomic’s proprietary investigational lysosomal targeting technology, UNITE, in the context of cell therapy. In May 2017, Immunomic exclusively licensed a patent portfolio from Annias Immunotherapeutics for use in combination with UNITE and ITI-1000, allowing Immunomic to combine UNITE with a patented and proprietary CMV immunotherapy platform. The ATTAC-II study (NCT02465268) is a Phase II randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial enrolling patients with newly diagnosed GBM that will explore whether dendritic cell (DC) vaccines, including ITI-1000, targeting the CMV antigen pp65 improves survival. This study is enrolling up to 120 subjects at 3 clinical sites in the United States. For more information on the ATTAC-II study, please visit www.clinicaltrials.gov.
About Immunomic Therapeutics, Inc.
Immunomic Therapeutics, Inc. (ITI) is a privately held, clinical stage biotechnology company pioneering the development of vaccines through its investigational proprietary technology platform, UNiversal Intracellular Targeted Expression (UNITE), which is designed to utilize the body’s natural biochemistry to develop vaccines that have the potential to generate broad immune responses. The UNITE platform has a robust history of applications in various therapeutic areas, including infectious diseases, oncology, allergy and autoimmune diseases. ITI is primarily focused on applying the UNITE platform to oncology, where it could potentially have broad applications, including targeting viral antigens, cancer antigens, neoantigens and producing antigen-derived antibodies as biologics. In 2020, an investment of over $77M by HLB Co., LTD, a global pharmaceutical company, enabled ITI to accelerate application of its immuno-oncology platform, in particular to glioblastoma multiforme, and rapidly advance other key candidates in the pipeline, including the most recent initiative into infectious diseases with development of its vaccine candidate for COVID-19. The Company has built a large pipeline from UNITE with four oncology programs, multiple animal health programs and a SARS-CoV-2 program to prevent and treat COVID-19. ITI has entered into a significant allergy partnership with Astellas Pharma and has formed several academic collaborations with leading Immuno-oncology researchers at Duke University and the University of Florida. ITI maintains its headquarters in Rockville, Maryland. For more information, please visit www.immunomix.com.