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Sunday, February 21, 2016 12:27:40 PM
Chris E Lawrence1*, Mark Rubinstein2, Zoya Gluzman-Poltorak1, Vladimir Vainstein1, Lena A Basile1
Abstract Presentation From 30th Annual Meeting and Associated Programs of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC 2015)
National Harbor, MD, USA. 4-8 November 2015
IL-12 is a heterodimeric, pro-inflammatory cytokine that enhances the cytotoxic activity of natural killer (NK) cells and cytotoxic CD8+ T-lymphocytes, and induces an IFN-dominated Th1 CD4+T-lymphocyte response. IL-12 as an immunotherapeutic agent administered subcutaneously in cancer patients has demonstrated clinical responses in melanoma, T cell lymphoma, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and AIDS-related Kaposi sarcoma, but was never developed
further. Having elucidated novel hematological properties of IL-12, we are advancing our proprietary recombinant human IL-12 (NM-IL-12) for the treatmentof the Hematopoietic Syndrome of Acute Radiation Syndrome. In three clinical safety studies conducted in
over 200 healthy human volunteers, subcutaneous NM-IL-12 was well-tolerated. No adverse immune reactions or immunogenicity were observed.
We have now developed a novel clinical paradigm for the use of subcutaneously administered, low dose NMIL-12 combined with standard of care radiotherapy, chemotherapy, or immunotherapy for the treatment of cancer. The pleiotropic effects of IL-12 are expected to augment the mechanistic, anti-tumor effects of each of
these treatments.
In vitro NM-IL-12 stimulated primary human NK cell secretion of IFN-g and the cytotoxic lysis of leukemic
cells, and inhibited production of pro-angiogenic IL-17 in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. In vivo, recombinant murine IL-12 (rMuIL-12) caused significant tumor growth inhibition following total body irradiation (625cGy) in syngeneic Lewis lung and EL4 lymphoma tumor models. In the same models, rMuIL-12 in combination with cyclophosphamide also caused significant tumor
growth inhibition. In the case of the non-immunogenic Lewis lung cancer model the combination of chemotherapy and IL-12 enhanced immunogenicity. In both tumor models, the antitumor effects of IL-12 were accompanied by rapid recovery of neutrophils, platelets and red blood cells, depressed by radiation or chemotherapy. This suggests an additional benefit of NM-IL-12 to cancer patients' myelosuppressed following radiation or chemotherapy. Preclinical evaluation of NM-IL-12 with radiation therapy and chemotherapy is now followed by evaluating combination immunotherapy. PD-1 blockade elicits potent anti-tumor immunity in a subset of melanoma patients. We have thus evaluated the combination of rMuIL-12 and anti-PD-1 antibody in a clinically relevant, syngeneic model of spontaneous, highly metastatic B16 mouse melanoma has been tested.
In summary we show that NM-IL-12 has excellent anti-tumor potential when used preclinically in combination with standard of care anti-cancer treatments, including radiation, chemotherapy and immunotherapy. NM-IL-12 is expected to contribute durable anti-tumor responses in the clinic through potent immunoactivation and anti-angiogenic effects, and to replenish blood cells, while being safe, well tolerated and non-immunogenic.
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