CARsgen Therapeutics Holdings Ltd a company focused on innovative CAR T-cell therapies for the treatment of hematologic malignancies and solid tumors, announces that at the 2022 American Society of Hematology (the "ASH") Annual Meeting, the Company presented a poster with the results of the phase II LUMMICAR STUDY 1 clinical trial of zevorcabtagene autoleucel ("zevor-cel", R&D code: CT053, an autologous CAR T-cell product candidate against BCMA) in Chinese patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (R/R MM). This poster reports for the first time the pivotal phase II safety and efficacy data of LUMMICAR STUDY 1.Phase ? Study of Fully Human BCMA-Targeted CAR T Cells (Zevorcabtagene Autoleucel) in Patients with Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma
Zevor-cel, a fully human autologous CAR T-cell product targeting B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA), is being evaluated for patients with R/R MM in LUMMICAR STUDY 1 (NCT03975907), an ongoing phase I/II clinical trial in China. Results for the 14 subjects treated in phase I of LUMMICAR STUDY 1 showed a well-tolerated safety profile, plus deep and durable responses with an objective response rate (ORR) of 100% and a complete response/stringent complete response (CR/sCR) rate of 78.6%.
A total of 102 patients with R/R MM were treated with zevor-cel at the dose of 150