Personalized DNA neoantigen vaccine in combination with plasmid IL-12 for the treatment of a patient with anaplastic astrocytoma.

Authors

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Tanner Michael Johanns

Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

Tanner Michael Johanns , Alfredo Perales-Puchalt , Roger Stupp , Mitchel Berger , William E. Gillanders , Chris Miller , Jasreet Hundal , Michael D. McLellan , S. Peter Goedegebuure , Sarah Rochestie , Neil Cooch , Joann Peters , Gavin P. Dunn , Niranjan Sardesai

Organizations

Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, Geneos Therapeutics, Plymouth Meeting, PA, Malnati Brain Tumor Institute, Chicago, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, Washington Univ. School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

Research Funding

Pharmaceutical/Biotech Company
Geneos Therapeutics

Background: Tumor neoantigens are epitopes derived from tumor-specific mutations that may be incorporated in personalized vaccines to prime T cell responses. DNA vaccines delivered with electroporation have recently shown strong CD8 and CD4 T cell responses in clinical trials. In preclinical studies, DNA-encoded neoantigen vaccines have shown induction of CD8 T cells against 50% of predicted high affinity epitopes with the ability to impact tumor growth. Methods: Two resection samples from a patient with IDH+ MGMT-methylated anaplastic astrocytoma were subject to whole exome and transcriptome sequencing. Epitopes derived from 27 neoantigens and 3 shared tumor-associated antigens were prioritized and included in a personalized vaccine. The patient was treated with surgery, radiotherapy and temozolomide starting June 2018 and received the first dose of the personalized vaccine in June 2019 under a compassionate use single patient IND application with the FDA. Results: As of February 10, 2021, the patient has received 10 doses of the DNA personalized vaccine. No serious adverse events have been reported. Related adverse events are limited to grade 1 injection site reactions. The patient remains progression-free 32 months after surgery and 20 months after starting vaccination. Three weeks following the third dose, a hyperintense image on the tumor bed was identified, which disappeared on the following MRI, 2 weeks following dose 5, being catalogued as pseudo progression. Ex vivo ELISpot have identified T cell responses to 21/30 epitopes (70%), including 18/27 (67%) neoantigens and 3/3 (100%) shared antigens. Flow cytometry analysis has determined that T cell responses are 92.3% CD8 and 69.2% CD4 (30.8% CD8 only; 61.5% both CD8 and CD4; and 7.7% CD4 only). Conclusions: This compassionate use treatment in an adjuvant setting demonstrates manufacturing feasibility, safety, tolerability, immunogenicity, and suggests potential for persistent clinical response of DNA encoded personalized vaccines. The data supports further investigation of DNA-encoded personalized vaccines into newly diagnosed high-grade gliomas.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2021 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Publication Only

Session Title

Publication Only: Developmental Therapeutics—Immunotherapy

Track

Developmental Therapeutics—Immunotherapy

Sub Track

Vaccines

Citation

J Clin Oncol 39, 2021 (suppl 15; abstr e14561)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2021.39.15_suppl.e14561

Abstract #

e14561

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