Caribou Biosciences Announces FDA Clearance of IND Application for CB-012, an Allogeneic Anti-CLL-1 CAR-T Cell Therapy for the Treatment of Relapsed or Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia
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BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Caribou Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRBU), a leading clinical-stage CRISPR genome-editing biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it received clearance of its Investigational New Drug (IND) application from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for CB-012, an allogeneic anti-C-type lectin-like molecule-1 (anti-CLL-1) CAR-T cell therapy. CB-012 will be evaluated in the multicenter, open-label, AMpLify Phase 1 clinical trial for patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (r/r AML).
“CB-012 was engineered with five genome edits, and is the first allogeneic CAR-T cell therapy, to our knowledge, with both checkpoint disruption through a PD-1 knockout, and immune cloaking through a B2M knockout and B2M–HLA-E fusion transgene insertion,” said Steve Kanner, PhD, Caribou’s chief scientific officer. “Both armoring strategies are designed to improve the antitumor activity of CB-012 that we believe are crucial for targeting this difficult to treat indication.”
“Clearance of our IND application for CB-012 represents another significant milestone for Caribou as our third off-the-shelf CAR-T cell therapy enters the clinic,” said Rachel Haurwitz, PhD, Caribou’s president and chief executive officer. “We look forward to initiating patient enrollment in the AMpLify Phase 1 trial by the middle of 2024 to evaluate the safety and tolerability of CB-012 in patients suffering from AML.”