PPF expands its investment in the healthcare sector through acquisition of significant stake in T cell therapy company Autolus Therapeutics
- Investment provides 19.2% stake in Autolus
- Autolus is PPF’s second largest investment in the healthcare sector, after PPF’s majority-owned biotechnology company SOTIO
PPF today announces the acquisition of a 19.2% stake in Autolus Therapeutics plc, a leader in next-generation T cell programming technologies. The shares were acquired in the market through NASDAQ.
SOTIO initiates first-in-human clinical trial with IL-15 superagonist SO-C101
SOTIO and Cytune Pharma, members of the PPF Group, announce today the first dosing of cancer patients with SO-C101, a superagonist fusion protein of interleukin IL-15. The phase I/Ib study (SC103) will evaluate the safety and preliminary efficacy of SO-C101 in patients with selected advanced/metastatic solid tumors.
SOTIO’s DCVAC/LuCa Significantly Improves Survival in Patients with Stage IV Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
- DCVAC/LuCa decreased the risk of death in patients with stage IV NSCLC by 46%
- Median overall survival (OS) reached 15.5 months in the treatment arm compared to 11.8 months in the control arm
- Median Progression Free Survival (PFS) prolonged by 1.1 months
- Final results of OS and PFS are statistically significant
- SOTIO considers initiation of Phase II/III clinical trials with DCVAC/LuCa
SOTIO, a biotechnology company owned by the PPF Group, presented new statistically and clinically significant results from its Phase I/II clinical trial evaluating DCVAC/LuCa, an active cellular immunotherapy product, in patients with stage IV non-small cell lung cancer. The final analysis of the data confirmed the promising clinical efficacy of DCVAC/LuCa. SLU01 clinical trial results were presented by the principal investigator Libor Havel, MD, from Thomayer University Hospital in Prague (Czech Republic) at the 2019 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in Chicago today.
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