Brian Van Tine, MD, PhD, on Bringing Cell Therapy Into Synovial Sarcoma Treatment

“We work with AdaptImmune on the SPEAR T-cell, which is a modified T cell, where we look at patients that are HLA-A*0-positive and express MAGEA4. This was a trial that I've been working on since almost the very beginning of the phase 1 that was presented in 2017 at ESMO, and there's been multiple updates of the registrational phase 2which has enabled the therapy to be up for a biologics license application. At Tandem, I’m giving a talk to bone marrow transplantation doctors.”

Afamitresgene autoleucel (afami-cel; Adaptimmune Therapeutics) has continued to demonstrate continued clinical responses in patients with late-stage synovial sarcoma in the phase 2 SPEARHEAD-1 study (NCT04044768). Investigator Brian Van Tine, MD, PhD, professor medicine and pediatrics at Washington University in St. Louis, gave a talk on afami-cel, how its builds on the data seen so far in the field, and protocol changes to support implementation of cell therapy in sarcoma at the 2023 Tandem Meetings |Transplantation & Cellular Therapy Meetings of ASTCT and CIBMTR, held in Orlando, Florida, February 15-19.

CGTLive spoke with Van Tine to learn more about afami-cel and how it could potentially improve outcomes for patients with synovial sarcoma, a disease area that has previously not seen many novel therapies. He overviewed the data generated and how it has favorably matured.

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REFERENCE

Van Tine B. Adoptive cell therapy for sarcoma. Presented at: 2023 Tandem Meetings, February 15-18, Orlando, Florida.