OSE Immunotherapeutics Receives First Notice of Allowance for a US Patent Covering Anti-PD1 Monoclonal Antibody OSE-279 And its Use in Cancer Treatment

• Issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office
• A New Protection Covering OSE-279 Until 2039

NANTES, France, March 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OSE Immunotherapeutics SA (ISIN: FR0012127173; Mnemo: OSE) today announces that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a first notice of allowance for a patent application covering OSE-279, an anti-PD1 monoclonal antibody, and its use in cancer treatment. This patent will strengthen the global intellectual property of OSE-279 and will provide the product protection until 2039.

OSE-279 is a humanized anti-PD1 monoclonal antibody blocking PD-L1 and PD-L2, the ligands of PD1 overexpressed by tumor cells. PD-L1 and PD-L2 are used by tumor cells to escape the immune system. Upregulation of PD-L1 and PD-L2 on tumor cells and other cell types of the tumor microenvironment is a proposed mechanism of tumor immune escape.

OSE-279 is the key anti-PD-1 backbone of BiCKI®-IL-7*, an innovative bifunctional therapy combining anti-PD1 and the cytokine IL-7 and targeting PD1 to sustain exhausted T cell function and to disarm Treg suppressive activity.

Dominique Costantini, Chief Executive Officer of OSE Immunotherapeutics, comments: “We are very pleased with this first notice of allowance for a patent covering OSE-279 in a major territory that simultaneously reinforces the product’s intellectual property and its position in our portfolio as an immunotherapy that has the potential to transform the current anti-PD1 standard of care for hard-to-treat cancers. We look forward advancing our anti-PD1 backbone development with the Phase 1 clinical trial planned to start in 2022.”

* Presentation at the 2022 American Society for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting (April 8 – 13): “Anti-PD1/IL7v immunocytokine promotes durable T-cell responses and overcomes anti-PD1 resistance”
Session ED015 - Immunocytokines: Strategies for Drug Delivery and Tissue Targeting
April 9, 2022, 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM

ABOUT OSE Immunotherapeutics 
OSE Immunotherapeutics is an integrated biotechnology company focused on developing and partnering therapies to control the immune system for immuno-oncology and autoimmune diseases. Its balanced first-in-class clinical and preclinical portfolio has a diversified risk profile:

Immuno-Oncology first-in-class products

• Tedopi® (innovative combination of neoepitopes): the company’s most advanced product; positive results for Phase 3 trial (Atalante 1) in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer patients in secondary resistance after checkpoint inhibitor failure.
  Other ongoing combination trials sponsored by cooperative clinical research groups in oncology:
   Phase 2 in pancreatic cancer (TEDOPaM), sponsor GERCOR.
   Phase 2 in ovary cancer, in combination with pembrolizumab (TEDOVA), sponsor ARCAGY-GINECO.
   Phase 2 in non-small cell lung cancer in combination with nivolumab, sponsor Italian foundation FoRT.
• BI 765063 (OSE-172, anti-SIRPα mAb on CD47/SIRPα pathway): developed in partnership with Boehringer Ingelheim in advanced solid tumors; positive Phase 1 dose escalation results of BI 765063 in monotherapy and in combination with ezabenlimab (PD-1 antagonist); ongoing expansion Phase 1.
• OSE-279, anti-PD1 – advanced preclinical stage.
• BiCKI®: bispecific fusion protein platform built on the key backbone component of anti-PD1 combined with a new immunotherapy target (for example: BiCKI®-IL7, preclinical stage) to increase anti-tumor efficacy.

Immunity & Inflammation first-in-class products

• OSE-127/S95011 (humanized monoclonal antibody antagonist of IL-7 receptor): developed in partnership with Servier; positive Phase 1 results; ongoing Phase 2 in ulcerative colitis (sponsor OSE) and ongoing Phase 2a in Sjögren’s syndrome (sponsor Servier).
• FR104 (anti-CD28 monoclonal antibody): licensing partnership agreement with Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in transplantation; ongoing Phase 1/2 in renal transplant (sponsored by the Nantes University Hospital); US IND obtained by Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for a clinical trial; Phase 2 planned in an autoimmune disease indication.
• OSE-230 (ChemR23 agonist mAb): preclinical stage therapeutic agent with the potential to resolve chronic inflammation by driving affected tissues to tissue integrity.

CoVepiT: a prophylactic second-generation vaccine activating cytotoxic T lymphocytes against COVID-19, developed using optimized epitopes from SARS-CoV2 viral proteins, epitopes non impacted by multi-variants. Shows good tolerance and very good level of T cell immune response. In clinical testing, a long-term memory response was confirmed at 6 months.

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