Sirpant technology for anti-cancer immunity
Ended Project Grant Awarded Last action
- Award ID
- R42CA265691
- Recipient
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Bobcatbio, Inc. UEI H7HGMZ5YTLQ6
- Awarding agency
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National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services
- Obligated
- $3,199,999
Award facts
- Assistance listing
- 93.395 Cancer Treatment Research
- Completion date
- Originally
- Funding
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- $2,799,999.00 Federal
- $400,000.00 Non-federal
- Place of performance
- Pennsylvania, USA
Award details come from USAspending.gov.
Description
- Abstract
- Immune evasion is a hallmark of cancer. Various tumor immunotherapy treatments, such as immune checkpoint blockade and cancer vaccination, have been developed to overcome cancer's ability to avoid immune detection and destruction; however, the result of these endeavors have not been satisfactory given a number of critical barriers. One of these barriers, and a prominent mechanism by which cancer evades immune surveillance and elimination, is through the cancer cell expressed CD47 to ligate sirpa, an itims-containing inhibitory signaling receptor expressed on macrophages, which serves as a negative regulator that inhibits macrophage phagocytosis, proinflammatory response and antigen presentation. In our studies, we discovered "phago-act"- a proprietary reagent that downregulates sirpa expression and empowers sirpa-deficient macrophages (sirpalow MØS) to be an initiator for triggering potent innate and adaptive anti-cancer immunity. Not only do they directly phagocytose cancer cells ("liquid"/non-adherent cancer in particular), but sirpalow MØS are also capable of conducting immunogenic antigen presentation to robustly activate tumor-specific cytotoxic t cells (TC) with high tumoricidal activities, leading to rapid elimination of late-stage, large-size solid tumors with distal lesions (mimic metastases). The results of sirpalow MØS-initiated responses, which are especially effective in solid tumors, have been vetted extensively in various pre-clinical solid tumor models including cancers of pancreatic, colorectal, lung, breasts and skin (melanoma), all of which resist advanced anti-cancer therapies including immune checkpoint inhibitors and their combinations with RT and other modalities. Moreover, sirpalow MØS- induced tumor elimination also leads to long-lasting anti-cancer immunity that prevents recurrence. The goal of this fast-track sttr is to leverage these important research findings and to accelerate their translation to clinical implement of scalable sirpalow MØ-based immunotherapy - "sirpant technology" - to treat a broad spectrum of cancers and prevent relapse. Our current focus is solid tumors. In phase i, we will extend current studies and establish reproducible protocols for producing human sirpalow MØ from pbmc (aim i-1). Phase II is to fund specific IND-enabling CMC refinement (aim II-1) and toxicology studies (aim II-2) needed for a phase i clinical trial, as well as patient applicable sirpalow MØS delivery strategies in combined with RT or/and immune checkpoint inhibitors (aim II-3). (these discoveries and therapeutic developments are protected by our filed patents)
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Who received award R42CA265691?
R42CA265691 was awarded to Bobcatbio, Inc. by National Cancer Institute (National Institutes of Health) on September 22, 2021.
How much is award R42CA265691 worth?
$3,199,999 has been obligated on R42CA265691: $2,799,999 in federal funding and $400,000 in non-federal funding.
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