On June 10, 2024 Kyverna Therapeutics, Inc. (Kyverna), a patient-centered, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing cell therapies for patients suffering from autoimmune diseases, reported the publication in Nature Reviews Immunology of a manuscript co-authored with the National Institutes of Health titled "Chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy for autoimmune disease"1 (Press release, Kyverna Therapeutics, JUN 10, 2024, View Source [SID1234644232]).
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With more than 30 ongoing sponsored clinical trials and a growing number of published clinical evidence suggesting the potential of CAR T-cell therapy approaches for autoimmune diseases, the manuscript highlights key considerations on optimal target cell population, CAR construct design, acceptable toxicities, and potential for lasting immune reset.
"It is quite exciting to see how the learnings from the development of innovative CAR T-cell approaches for the treatment of cancer patients are now being applied to the treatment of patients with autoimmune diseases," said James Kochenderfer, M.D., senior investigator, clinician, and translational researcher in the Surgery Branch of the National Cancer Institute, National Health Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. "I look forward to seeing further progress in this emerging field ultimately leading towards a potential breakthrough in patient treatment."
"We are very proud of our scientific collaboration with widely recognized opinion leaders in CAR T-cell therapy," said Peter Maag, Ph.D., chief executive officer of Kyverna. "By rapidly advancing an evidence-based science we may bring potentially long-lasting, treatment-free therapeutic options to many patients in need."
About KYV-101
KYV-101 is an autologous, fully human CD19 CAR T-cell product candidate for use in B cell-driven autoimmune diseases. The CAR in KYV-101 was designed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to improve tolerability and tested in a 20-patient Phase 1 trial in oncology. Results were published by the NIH in Nature Medicine2.
KYV-101 is currently being evaluated in sponsored, open-label, Phase 1/2 and Phase 2 trials of KYV-101 in the United States and Germany across two broad areas of autoimmune disease: rheumatology and neurology.
With 50 patients treated so far with the CAR in KYV-101 in both oncological and autoimmune conditions at more than 15 locations in Europe and the U.S., we believe that the differentiated properties of KYV-101 are critical for the potential success of CAR T cells as autoimmune disease therapies.
KYV-101 is also being evaluated in investigator-initiated trials for multiple indications in multiple geographies.