Oncimmune Holdings plc (LON:ONC), the leading global immunodiagnostics group, has announced it has signed an autoantibody profiling contract with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. Dana-Farber, a clinical affiliate and research institute of Harvard Medical School, is a world-leading cancer research organisation and one of America’s top-rated cancer hospitals with more than 1,100 therapeutic and non therapeutic clinical trials in progress.
Under this agreement, Oncimmune will be utilising its proprietary biomarker discovery engine, SeroTagTM, to identify autoantibodies that can be predictive of patient response or associated with resistance to checkpoint inhibitors and chemotherapy used in Dana-Farber led studies or therapy using atezolizumab, nivolumab, pembrolizumab, durvalumab and cisplatin-based chemotherapy. In addition, SeroTag will be used for identifying autoantibodies that can be predictive of immune-related adverse events in response treatment. The project is scheduled to complete by the end of 2021.
SeroTag is a high-throughput, multiplex, discovery technology based on Oncimmune’s in-house protein library, one of the largest in the world, with a unique, ever-growing repository of disease data for indications such as autoimmune and infectious diseases as well as cancer. The proprietary SeroTag immuno-oncology discovery array is based on autoantibody profiling studies in autoimmune diseases and other cancer types, and comprises known and proprietary antigens linked to a number of cancers, autoimmune and infectious diseases.
Dr Adam M Hill, CEO of Oncimmune said: “We are delighted to be partnering with such a prestigious organisation as Dana-Farber on the use of multiple CPI assets in this important oncology trial and leveraging the power of our autoantibody biomarker profiling technology.
“As autoantibodies continue to be recognised as a key biomarker class that aid in the understanding of interactions between cancer and the immune system, the ImmunoINSIGHTS platform is becoming increasingly instrumental in studies for a wide range of cancer indications and therapy classes.”
