Positive T-Track® CMV Study Results With New Guidance Strategies For Anti-viral Treatment Decisions Following Stem Cell Transplantation
Continued Validation of Lophius? Development Capabilities Bode Well as Company Advances in Tuberculosis as Next Focus Area
(PresseBox) - Lophius Biosciences GmbH today announced successful top-line results from its multicenter AlloProtect CMV clinical study. Results show the ability of Lophius? CE-marked in vitro diagnostic test T-Trackleading to a better guidance in antiviral treatment decisions, due to the reliable identification of patients with freedom from recurrent treatment-requiring CMV reactivation.
?Following positive results in a kidney transplant setting last year, today?s results once more highlight the potential of our novel approach to assess the risk of CMV-related complications after transplantation in a reliable fashion. Applied broadly in clinical practice, our test could guide clinicians in their decision to start, discontinue or adjust antiviral treatment, potentially avoiding unnecessary treatments and saving costs for the healthcare system,? said Bernd Merkl, CEO & Managing Director of Lophius Biosciences GmbH. ?Beyond the positive results of T-Trackunmet clinical need in a new indication, tuberculosis, with a proprietary blood-based multi-marker solution.?
Study Results of the AlloProtect CMV Study
In the prospective, longitudinal, observational, multicenter AlloProtect CMV study, 175 intermediate- and high-risk HSCT recipients were followed up to 7.5 months post-transplantation for the occurrence of recurrent CMV reactivation. The primary goal was to evaluate whether T-Trackplications and can support clinicians in the identification of patients free from future recurrent CMV reactivation, thus allowing an improved management of HSCT patients.
More information on the trial design is available on www.clinicaltrials.gov.
Background on CMV, CMV-specific cell-mediated immunity and T-Track
The Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is highly present in the human population with an estimated seroprevalence of approximately 30-90% but efficiently controlled in healthy individuals by the immune system, primarily via cell-mediated immunity. In immunosuppressed patients like transplant recipients, however, reactivation of CMV replication may require treatment with antiviral medication either prophylactically in the first months after transplantation or preemptively based on CMV viral load measurement. Nevertheless, optimal duration of either antiviral therapy or virological monitoring is not well defined and assessment of CMV-specific immunity and the ability of immunosuppressed patients to control virus replication via their immune system are not taken into consideration. By measuring CMV-specific cell-mediated immunity, T-Track
Lophius Biosciences? mission is to transform treatment paradigms and patient management with novel molecular diagnostic solutions for life threatening and highly-contagious infectious diseases. The core program addresses an unmet clinical need in tuberculosis (TB), a global epidemic affecting hundreds of millions of people. Lophius has developed a proprietary blood-based multi-marker solution, run on widely available platforms, to deliver a significant improvement on TB infection detection over existing approaches. Lophius is advancing biomarker combinations which would disrupt the field by being able to differentiate between active TB disease and latent TB infection. In addition, the company is commercializing a clinically validated CE-marked diagnostic kit to individualize transplant patient management by personalized CMV disease risk stratification.
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Lophius Biosciences? mission is to transform treatment paradigms and patient management with novel molecular diagnostic solutions for life threatening and highly-contagious infectious diseases. The core program addresses an unmet clinical need in tuberculosis (TB), a global epidemic affecting hundreds of millions ofpeople. Lophius has developed a proprietary blood-based multi-marker solution, run on widely available platforms, to deliver a significant improvement on TB infection detection over existing approaches. Lophius is advancing biomarker combinations which would disrupt the field by being able to differentiate between active TB disease and latent TB infection. In addition, the company is commercializing a clinically validated CE-marked diagnostic kit to individualize transplant patient management by personalized CMV disease risk stratification.
Datum: 07.02.2019 - 03:00 Uhr
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