BioLineRx's AGI-134 to be Presented at AACR 2017
TEL AVIV, Israel, March 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --
BioLineRx Ltd. (NASDAQ/TASE: BLRX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on oncology and immunology, announced today that AGI-134, an immunotherapy for the treatment of multiple cancers, obtained through its recently announced acquisition of Agalimmune Ltd., will be featured at the upcoming American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in Washington, DC to be held on April 1-5, 2017.
An abstract titled "The novel a-Gal-based immunotherapy AGI-134 invokes CD8+ T cell-mediated immunity by driving tumor cell destruction, phagocytosis and tumor-associated antigen cross-presentation via multiple antibody-mediated effector functions" was accepted for a poster presentation at the T-Cell Immunity to Cancer: New Progress session on April 2nd, 2017.
About AGI-134
AGI-134 is a synthetic alpha-Gal immunotherapy in development for solid tumors. AGI-134 harnesses the body's pre-existing, highly abundant anti-alpha-Gal antibodies to induce a systemic, specific anti-tumor response to the patient's own tumor neo-antigens. This response not only kills the tumor cells at the site of injection, but also brings about a durable, follow-on, anti-metastatic immune response. AGI-134 has completed numerous pre-clinical studies, demonstrating robust protection against the development of secondary tumors in a model of melanoma with a single dose only. Synergy has also been demonstrated in additional pre-clinical studies when combined with a PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor, offering the potential to broaden the utility of such immunotherapies, and improve the rate and duration of responses in multiple cancer types. AGI-134 is in near-clinical development and is expected to commence a first-in-man study in patients with solid tumors in the first half of 2018.
