Arvinas to Present at the BMO Prescriptions for Success Healthcare Conference

On June 20, 2019 Arvinas Inc. (Nasdaq: ARVN), a biotechnology company creating a new class of drugs based on protein degradation, reported that Ian Taylor, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, will participate in a fireside chat at the BMO Prescriptions for Success Healthcare Conference on Tuesday, June 25 at 2:00 p.m. ET in New York, NY (Press release, Arvinas, JUN 20, 2019, View Source [SID1234537191]).

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A live audio webcast of the presentation will be available here and at www.arvinas.com on the Events page. A replay of the webcast will be archived on the Arvinas website for 30 days following the presentation.

Actinium’s Portfolio of Antibody Radiation-Conjugates to be Highlighted in Two Oral and Two Poster Presentations at the 2019 Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Annual Meeting

On June 20, 2019 Actinium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE AMERICAN: ATNM) ("Actinium") reported its presence at the upcoming SNMMI or Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2019 Annual Meeting being held June 22nd – 25th in Anaheim, California (Press release, Actinium Pharmaceuticals, JUN 20, 2019, View Source [SID1234537190]). In total, two oral and two poster presentations highlighting Actinium’s programs will be presented at SNMMI. In addition, Actinium’s Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Dale Ludwig, will participate in a panel at the Ac-225 User Group at SNMMI to discuss the use of the radioisotope Ac-225 or Actinium-225 produced by the of U.S. Department of Energy via a high-energy linear accelerator. Actinium has demonstrated feasibility in generating ARC’s or Antibody Radiation-Conjugates with linear accelerator produced Ac-225.

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Actinium’s lead program, Iomab-B, which is being studied in the pivotal Phase 3 SIERRA trial, will be highlighted in two oral presentations at SNMMI. The two oral presentations will focus on the dosimetry of Iomab-B, which is used to tailor personalized doses for each patient in the SIERRA trial. Dosimetry allows for high levels of the isotope I-131 or Iodine-131 to be delivered in a patient specific doses, which has facilitated engraftment in all patients that received Iomab-B and a BMT or Bone Marrow Transplant in the first 25% of patients enrolled in the SIERRA trial. In addition, findings from a multi-center team suggest that dosimetry imaging optimization may be possible with Iomab-B, which could result in benefits for patients and treatment centers including a reduction in the number and time required for imaging.

The two poster presentations will highlight Actinium’s AWE or Antibody Warhead Enabling Technology Platform that Actinium utilizes to empower its pipeline of ARC’s. A poster will highlight the ARC comprised of the anti-CD38 antibody daratumumab, which is marketed as Darzalex by Johnson & Johnson for patients with Multiple Myeloma, labeled with the radioisotope actinium-225. In addition, a poster presentation will highlight Actinium’s expansion of its Iomab-ACT for lymphodepletion prior to CAR-T and other adoptive cell therapies. Actinium’s Iomab-ACT program, which is a lower dose of Iomab-B, is intended to eliminate chemotherapy based conditioning agents such as Flu/Cy or Fludarabine and Cyclophosphamide. The poster will highlight the use of the radioisotope Lu-177 or Lutetium-177 with an anti-CD45 antibody, which has the potential to expand the radioisotope warheads that Actinium can utilize to achieve lymphodepletion prior to CAR-T and other adoptive cell therapies with its ARC’s. The poster at SNMMI will be the first time that Actinium is presenting data on the use of Lu-177 with a CD45 targeting moiety.

Details of the SNMMI presentations are as follows:

Oral Presentations:

Session Title: SS51: Other Solid Tumors/ Hematologic Malignancies (Clinical) I
Date & Time: Tuesday, June 25th, 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Location: Room 202AB, Anaheim Convention Center

Publication 433
Presenter: Neeta Pandit-Taskar MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Time: 9:10-9:20 AM
Title: Optimizing Dosimetry Imaging in High dose Radioimmunotherapy Using the Novel, AntiCD45 Reinduction and Targeted Conditioning Agent Iodine (131I) Apamistamab [IomabB] in Patients 55 Years or Older with Active, Relapsed or Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia (SIERRA Phase III Trial)

Publication 434
Presenter: Neeta Pandit-Taskar MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (on behalf of first author Landis Griffeth MD, Baylor University Medical Center)
Time: 9:20-9:30 AM
Title: Personalized Dosimetry using 131I-anti-CD45-Apamistamab (Iomab-B) Prior to High-dose Myeloablative Radioimmunotherapy for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (HCT) in Active, Relapsed, or Refractory Acute Myelogenous Leukemia: Novel Re-induction and Targeted Conditioning Feasibility and Engraftment Results from the SIERRA Trial

Poster Presentations:

Session Title: MTA I: Oncology, Basic and Translational (Basic Science) Posters
Date & Time: Monday, June 24th, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Location: Poster Hall, Exhibit Hall, Anaheim Convention Center

Poster 1410
Presenter: Dr. Ekaterina Dadachova, University of Saskatchewan
225Ac-CD38 antibody targeting is effective and well tolerated in experimental models of lymphoma and multiple myeloma

Poster 1420
Presenter: Dr. Dale Ludwig, Actinium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Modeling targeted lymphodepletion with 177Lu-radiolabeled CD45 antibody as a preparative regimen prior to adoptive cell therapy

Ac-225 User Group at SNMMI
Date and Time: Sunday, June 23rd 4:00 – 5:00 PM PT
Location: Platinum Ballroom Salon 3 in Anaheim Marriott

AbbVie Declares Quarterly Dividend

On June 20, 2019 The board of directors of AbbVie Inc. (NYSE: ABBV) reported a quarterly cash dividend of $1.07 per share (Press release, AbbVie, JUN 20, 2019, View Source [SID1234537189]).

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The cash dividend is payable August 15, 2019 to stockholders of record at the close of business on July 15, 2019.

Since the company’s inception in 2013, AbbVie has increased its dividend by 168 percent. AbbVie is a member of the S&P Dividend Aristocrats Index, which tracks companies that have annually increased their dividend for at least 25 consecutive years.

Marker Therapeutics to Report Updated Results from Phase 1/2 Trial with MultiTAA Therapy in Patients with Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

On June 20, 2019 Marker Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq:MRKR), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company specializing in the development of next-generation T cell-based immunotherapies for the treatment of hematological malignancies and solid tumor indications, reported that updated clinical data from an investigator-sponsored Phase 1/2 trial led by Baylor College of Medicine were selected for oral presentation during a plenary session at the upcoming American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) (Free AACR Whitepaper)’s (AACR) (Free AACR Whitepaper) Immune Cell Therapies for Cancer: Successes and Challenges of CAR T Cells and Other Forms of Adoptive Therapy conference (Press release, TapImmune, JUN 20, 2019, View Source [SID1234537188]). The data—which will also be presented in a poster session—will be reviewed by Brandon G. Smaglo, M.D., FACP, Assistant Professor, Medical Director of Hematology/Oncology at the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.

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Oral Presentation Details

Title: "Targeting pancreatic cancer using nonengineered, multiantigen-specific T cells (TACTOPS)"

Date: Saturday, July 20, 2019

Time (Plenary Session #1): 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. PST

Location: Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, CA

Poster Presentation Details

Title: "Targeting pancreatic cancer using nonengineered, multiantigen-specific T cells (TACTOPS)"

Date: Saturday, July 20, 2019

Time (Poster Session A): 12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. PST

Location: Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, CA

Investor Event
For those unable to attend the presentations at AACR (Free AACR Whitepaper), Marker will host a live investor event following the conference on Monday, July 22nd at 1:30 p.m. PST in San Francisco featuring Dr. Brandon Smaglo, as well as Marker senior management. A live webcast of the investor presentation will be available in the investors section of the Company’s website at View Source and will be available for replay following the event.

RhoVac AB receives approval to start clinical phase IIb study in Denmark

On June 5, 2019 RhoVac AB ("RhoVac") reported that the Danish Medicines Agency (DMA) has approved RhoVac’s clinical trial application (CTA) on the clinical phase IIb study with the drug candidate RV001 (Press release, RhoVac, JUN 19, 2019, View Source [SID1234555929]). The approval from the DMA is conditioned final approval by the Ethics Committee, which has not yet finalized the review of the application.

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Clinical Phase IIb study

The study, named RhoVac-002 ("BRAVAC") for which RhoVac has received approval to start, targets prostate cancer patients who have completed primary treatment (surgery or radiotherapy) and who show rising values ​​in the prostate cancer marker PSA. It is a randomized, placebo controlled and double blinded study, where the primary goal of the study is to evaluate whether treatment with the drug candidate RV001 can reduce or prevent PSA increase compared to the control group (placebo group).

The study will enrol 150 evaluable patients who will be recruited in at least six countries, of which Denmark is the first. The clinical trial application will now be submitted in the remaining countries and, according to schedule, recruitment of patients to the study will be completed in Q3 2020. Reporting on the primary end-point of the study is expected Q3 2021.

CEO Anders Ljungqvist comments

-In the beginning of April 2019, RhoVac announced that the application to start the clinical phase IIb study, with RV001 had been submitted to the Danish Medicines Agency in Denmark. The fact that RhoVac has now received approval from the DMA means that the study can be initiated, in accordance with the communicated schedule, in the beginning of H2 2019. The first patients will be recruited at the University Hospital in Copenhagen.

Thanks to the rights issue on approximately SEK 181 million (before issue costs), which is currently ongoing, we secure that the study can start without delay. With this issue, we will have funding for the coming three years and can now focus on optimal clinical development and on finding the best possible exit partner, a partner we expect to have in final stage of negotiations when phase IIb study results becomes available.

The combination of advanced preparation for the phase IIb study and financing secured for the coming three years, puts RhoVac in a unique situation, and I am pleased to now continue the journey of the drug candidate RV001 into the next development phase.