Results of a completed phase I study of LAM-002 (apilimod dimesylate), a first-in-class phosphatidylinositol-3-phosphate 5 kinase (PIKfyve) inhibitor, administered as monotherapy or with rituximab or atezolizumab to patients with previously treated follicular lymphoma or other B-cell cancers.

Authors

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Catherine S. Magid Diefenbach

Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health, New York, NY

Catherine S. Magid Diefenbach , Jonathan B Cohen , Wael A. Harb , Stephen M. Ansell , Loretta J. Nastoupil , Jeremy S. Abramson , Nehal J. Lakhani , Marshall T. Schreeder , Taimur Sher , Dipti Patel-Donnelly , David Michael Aboulafia , Candace A. Fuchs , Darrell Nix , Sean Landrette , Patricia S Graham , Lydia B King , Peter L. Young , Langdon L. Miller , Henri Lichenstein , Sarah C. Rutherford

Organizations

Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, Horizon Oncology Research, LLC, Lafayette, IN, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma, Houston, TX, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, START-Midwest, Grand Rapids, MI, Clearview Cancer Institute, Huntsville, AL, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, FNVHO, Fairfax, VA, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA, AI Therapeutics, Inc., Guilford, CT, Ce3, Inc, Guilford, CT, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY

Research Funding

Pharmaceutical/Biotech Company
AI Therapeutics, Inc.

Background: LAM-002 is a selective inhibitor of PIKfyve that disrupts lysosomal homeostasis, inducing cytotoxicity in B-cell lymphoma models as monotherapy or with anti-CD20 or anti-PDL1 antibodies (Gayle et al., Blood 2017;129(13):1768). Methods: In this study, patients received LAM-002 orally 2-3 times per day (BID or TID) in a 3+3 escalation. Additional patients received LAM-002 125 mg BID as monotherapy; with rituximab 375 mg/m2 intravenously (IV) and or subcutaneously weekly (Q1W) x 4 → Q8W x 4; or atezolizumab 1200 mg IV Q3W until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Pharmacokinetics (PK) were assessed for 8 hours postdose on Days 1 and 8. Efficacy was evaluated Q6-12W. Results: The study enrolled 62 patients (M:F n = 32/30); median [range] age = 69 [46-89] years; with diagnoses (n) of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (25), follicular lymphoma (19), marginal zone lymphoma (8), mantle cell lymphoma (5), or chronic lymphocytic leukemia (5) to receive LAM-002 alone (n) at 50 mg BID (3), 100 mg BID (8), 150 mg BID (8), 75 mg TID (4), or 125 mg BID (20); LAM-002/rituximab (12); or LAM-002/atezolizumab (7). During LAM-002 dose-ranging (50 mg BID → 100 mg BID → 150 mg BID → 75 mg TID → 125 mg BID) transient, reversible nausea and/or diarrhea occurred at 150 mg BID and 75 mg TID, resulting in a LAM-002 recommended Phase 2 dosing regimen (RP2DR) of 125 mg BID. Among 39 patients receiving LAM-002, 125 mg BID, alone or in combination for up to 22 cycles (1.9 years), adverse events were typically low-grade. LAM-002 PK showed rapid absorption, dose proportionality, minimal accumulation, and no substantive changes with rituximab or atezolizumab coadministration. In patients with follicular lymphoma and median [range] prior therapies = 3 [1-9] treated with the RP2DR, objective response rates were 2/7 (29%; 1 complete response [CR], 1 partial response [PR]) with LAM-002, 5/8 (63%; 1 CR, 4 PRs) with LAM-002/rituximab, and 2/2 (100%; 2 PRs) with LAM-002/atezolizumab. Conclusions: LAM-002, the first clinical PIKfyve inhibitor, is safe alone or with full-dose anti-CD20 or anti-PD-L1 inhibition. LAM-002 does not cause the myelosuppressive or immune adverse events associated with lenalidomide or PI3K inhibitors. Promising efficacy supports registration-directed Phase 2/3 testing of LAM-002 monotherapy and combination therapy for patients with previously treated follicular lymphoma. Clinical trial information: NCT02594384.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2020 ASCO Virtual Scientific Program

Session Type

Poster Discussion Session

Session Title

Hematologic Malignancies—Lymphoma and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

Track

Hematologic Malignancies

Sub Track

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

Clinical Trial Registration Number

NCT02594384

Citation

J Clin Oncol 38: 2020 (suppl; abstr 8017)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2020.38.15_suppl.8017

Abstract #

8017

Poster Bd #

350

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