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Actinium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
−Removed: is a clinical-stage, biopharmaceutical company applying its proprietary platform technology and deep understanding of radiobiology to
−Removed: the development of novel targeted radiotherapies for patients with unmet needs.
−Removed: Our targeted radiotherapies combine the cell-killing ability
−Removed: of radiation via a radioisotope payload with a targeting agent, such as a monoclonal antibody, to deliver radiation in a precise manner
−Removed: inside the body to specific, targeted cells, to potentially achieve greater efficacy with lower toxicity than with external beam radiation.
−Removed: They also enable a broader usage of radiation than external beam radiation as they can be used in the treatment of both solid tumors and
−Removed: blood cancers, which generally cannot be treated with external radiation given their diffuse nature.
−Removed: Our clinical pipeline is focused
−Removed: on targeting the antigens CD45 and CD33, both of which are expressed in multiple hematologic cancers, which are known to be highly sensitive
−Removed: to radiation.
−Removed: Our clinical programs are focused on two primary areas:
−Removed: (1) targeted conditioning prior to a bone marrow transplant (“BMT”),
−Removed: adoptive cell therapy (“ACT”) such as CAR-T or gene therapy with Iomab-B and (2) targeted radiotherapy combinations with Actimab-A
−Removed: and other therapeutic agents.
−Removed: Our product development strategy is actively informed by clinical data with Iomab-B and Actimab-A in approximately
−Removed: 600 patients, including our ongoing Pivotal Phase 3 SIERRA trial, which completed its targeted enrollment of 150 patients in the third
−Removed: quarter of 2021, with the last patient receiving their BMT in the fourth quarter of 2021.
−Removed: Our clinical pipeline has emanated from our
−Removed: Antibody Warhead Enabling (“AWE”) technology platform, which is protected by over 170 issued and pending patents, trade secrets
−Removed: and know-how that we are applying to the development of targeted radiotherapies for blood and solid tumor indications, independently and
−Removed: with collaborators.
−Removed: Ongoing collaborations include a research partnership with Astellas Pharma, Inc.
−Removed: (“Astellas”) focused
−Removed: on the development of theranostics, which enable the diagnosis and treatment, for solid tumor indications, a collaboration with EpicentRx,
−Removed: Inc, focused on a novel CD47 immunotherapy targeted radiotherapy combination, leveraging EpicentRx’s RRx-01, that is being studied
−Removed: in a Phase 3 trial in non-small cell lung cancer, with our clinical stage Actimab-A in AML models, and a collaboration with AVEO Oncology,
−Removed: focused on developing a HER3 targeting ARC or Antibody Radiation Conjugate for solid tumors leveraging with their clinical stage antibody.
−Removed: We are also utilizing our AWE technology platform to advance our research objectives focused on developing next-generation targeted radiotherapies
−Removed: with our expanded research and development organization and research laboratories leveraging our drug development experience.
−Removed: Targeted Conditioning
−Removed: To the best of our knowledge, we are advancing the only multi-target, multi-indication, clinical-stage pipeline for targeted conditioning.
−Removed: Our targeted conditioning agents are intended to potentially enable improved access and outcomes to cell-based therapies with curative
−Removed: potential, including BMT, ACT, and gene therapy Conditioning in the context of BMT, ACT or gene therapy is the act of depleting certain
−Removed: blood and immune-forming cells, including bone marrow stem cells and, in some cases, cancer cells prior to transplanting new cells into
−Removed: Currently, conditioning is accomplished using a combination of cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agents and external radiation.
−Removed: non-targeted conditioning regimens are highly toxic and may prevent a patient from receiving a potentially curative therapy and hinder
−Removed: We believe our targeted conditioning agents have the potential to increase patient access and outcomes by way of their ability
−Removed: to selectively deplete targeted cells while sparing normal healthy cells, resulting in potentially lower systemic and off-target toxicities.
−Removed: We use our ARCs both at high isotope dose levels to achieve myeloablation, which fully depletes bone marrow stem cells and at lower isotope
−Removed: dose levels to achieve lymphodepletion, which spares bone marrow stem cells from depletion.
−Removed: In addition, dosing may be titrated downward
−Removed: from myeloablative doses to achieve partial myeloablation, which may be appropriate for certain gene therapy programs.
−Removed: CD45 Targeted Conditioning Program
−Removed: Iomab-B (I-131 apamistamab),
−Removed: our lead candidate and targeted conditioning agent is comprised of the anti-CD45 monoclonal antibody known as apamistamab (formerly BC8)
−Removed: and the radioisotope Iodine-131 (“I-131”).
−Removed: CD45 is an antigen expressed on leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma cancer cells, as
−Removed: well as nucleated immune cells including bone marrow stem cells, but is not expressed outside of the hematopoietic, or blood forming,
−Removed: This unique expression on blood cancer and immune cells enables simultaneous depletion of both cell types, making CD45 an optimal
−Removed: antigen for targeted conditioning applications.
−Removed: CD45 is a cell surface antigen with an average expression of 200,000 copies per cell,
−Removed: however, it only internalizes at a rate of 10-15%.
−Removed: We believe our ARC approach is the most effective method to target CD45 positive cells,
−Removed: as the radioisotope payload linear energy transfer can readily ablate a targeted cell without requiring payload internalization like an
−Removed: antibody drug conjugate or without relying on biological effector function processes like a naked antibody.
−Removed: Furthermore, since CD45 expression
−Removed: level varies from low to high antigen density as the immune cells become more terminally differentiated, we can selectively condition
−Removed: depending on the therapeutic application, from full myeloablation to transient lymphodepletion, by adjusting the dose or intensity of
−Removed: the I-131 isotope payload.
−Removed: Full myeloablation can be achieved with high doses of I-131, as its energy pathlength and crossfire effect
−Removed: can penetrate into bone marrow niches to target and deplete blood and immune system forming bone marrow stem cells.
−Removed: Myeloablation is applicable
−Removed: to autologous or allogeneic BMT and to autologous gene-edited or modified therapies that can reconstitute a patient’s blood and
−Removed: immune systems.
−Removed: Alternatively, low doses of I-131 can be transiently lymphodepleting and spare a patient’s bone marrow stem cells,
−Removed: which we believe is ideal for ACT applications such as CAR-T.
−Removed: We intend to develop our CD45 targeted conditioning program for BMT, ACT
−Removed: and gene therapy applications for malignant and non-malignant diseases and believe that multiple radioisotopes beyond I-131 may be utilized
−Removed: including alpha and beta emitters.
−Removed: Iomab-B uses high doses of
−Removed: I-131 to achieve myeloablative conditioning prior to a BMT, is currently being studied in the pivotal Phase 3 Study of Iomab-B in Elderly
−Removed: Relapsed or Refractory AML (“SIERRA”), clinical trial for targeted conditioning prior to an allogeneic BMT for patients with
−Removed: active, relapsed or refractory (“r/r”) Acute Myeloid Leukemia, (“AML”), who are age 55 or older.
−Removed: Enrollment of
−Removed: the planned 150 patients in the SIERRA trial was completed in the third quarter of 2021 with the last patient receiving their BMT in the
−Removed: fourth quarter of 2021.
−Removed: Patients with active, r/r AML are not normally considered eligible for BMT and the SIERRA trial is the only randomized
−Removed: Phase 3 trial to offer BMT as a treatment option for this patient population.
−Removed: The SIERRA trial compares outcomes of patients randomized
−Removed: to receive Iomab-B and a BMT (the “study arm”) to those patients randomized to receive physician’s choice of salvage
−Removed: therapy (the “control arm”).
−Removed: The control arm is also defined as conventional care, as no standard of care exists for this
−Removed: patient population and includes over 20 agents that may be used as single agents or in combination including venetoclax, a targeted Bcl-2
−Removed: inhibitor, Midostaurin and Sorafenib, targeted FLT3 inhibitors, hypomethylating agents and cytotoxic chemotherapies.
−Removed: Patients who fail
−Removed: to achieve a Complete Remission (“CR”) on the control arm are ineligible to proceed to a BMT, but the trial design permits
−Removed: these patients to “cross over” to receive the study arm treatment if they meet the eligibility criteria.
−Removed: The primary endpoint
−Removed: of the SIERRA trial is durable Complete Remission (“dCR”) of 180 days and the secondary endpoint is Overall Survival (“OS”).
−Removed: When the crossover patients receive Iomab-B and BMT, they have not achieved remission with their salvage therapy and are considered to
−Removed: be failures for the primary endpoint of the study.
−Removed: The SIERRA trial recruited patients at 24 sites in the United States and Canada, which
−Removed: includes many of the leading BMT sites based on volume.
−Removed: If approved, we expect our initial commercial launch would target the leading
−Removed: 50-100 BMT and medical centers that perform the vast majority of BMT’s in the United States.
−Removed: In the European Union (“EU”),
−Removed: we received favorable feedback from the European Medicines Agency (“EMA”) via their scientific advice program that the trial
−Removed: design, primary endpoint and planned statistical analysis from the SIERRA trial are acceptable as the basis for a Marketing Authorization
−Removed: Application, or MAA.
−Removed: Additionally, the EMA commented that it does not anticipate the need for further standalone preclinical toxicology
−Removed: or safety studies.
−Removed: Overall, transplant procedures in the EU are approximately fifty percent higher than in the United States with a similar
−Removed: market dynamic, with a majority of BMT volume being conducted in a concentrated number of leading medical centers.
−Removed: Currently we intend
−Removed: to secure a partner for Iomab-B in the EU.
−Removed: Data from full patient enrollment in the SIERRA trial (151 patients), was presented at the American Society of Hematology (“ASH”)
−Removed: Annual Meeting in December 2021.
−Removed: The data presented includes rates of BMT access and engraftment, 100-day non-relapse transplant-related
−Removed: mortality (100-day TRM) and adverse events, which has been reported from interim analyses conducted at 25%, 50% 75% and 100% of patient
−Removed: enrollment pursuant to the study protocol.
−Removed: The data presented at ASH highlighted that 100% of patients (59/59) on the study arm that received
−Removed: a therapeutic dose of Iomab-B received a BMT, with a median time to BMT of 30 days, and all patients achieved neutrophil and platelet
−Removed: engraftment in a median time of 18 days despite a high median blast count of 29%.
−Removed: On the control arm, only 17% of patients (13/76) achieved
−Removed: remission after salvage therapy, and then received a BMT with a median time to BMT of 67 days and median blast count of 20%.
−Removed: of patients failing to achieve a CR with conventional care (47/57), 30 patients were eligible to cross over to receive Iomab-B followed
−Removed: by transplant.
−Removed: These patients are considered as having failed the primary endpoint of the study.
−Removed: All crossover patients who received the
−Removed: therapeutic dose of Iomab-B (30/30) received a BMT, with a median time to BMT of 24 days and they achieved engraftment in a median time
−Removed: of 19 days despite high median blast count of 22% at time of crossover.
−Removed: It was also reported that 100-day TRM of the study or Iomab-B
−Removed: arm was 10% (6/59) of patients that received a BMT compared to 15% of patients (2/13) who received a BMT after salvage therapy on the
−Removed: The universal engraftment rate and low 100-day TRM rate of the Iomab-B arm resulted in 53 patients potentially evaluable
−Removed: for the primary endpoint compared to 11 patients in the control arm, an approximate five times difference.
−Removed: At each of the interim analyses
−Removed: throughout the SIERRA trial, this approximate five times difference has been consistent in favor of the Iomab-B arm as a result of higher
−Removed: rates of BMT engraftment and lower rates of 100-day TRM.
−Removed: Data from the SIERRA trial has
−Removed: also been accepted for presentation at the upcoming Transplantation & Cellular Therapy (“TCT”) Tandem Meetings of the
−Removed: American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (“ASTCT”) and Center for International Bone & Marrow Transplant
−Removed: Research (“CIBMTR”), which has been postponed from February to April 2022.
−Removed: At TCT, we expect to present additional data from
−Removed: the SIERRA trial to include patients who have matured for BMT engraftment and 100-day TRM analysis, for which data was not available at
−Removed: time of the submission cutoff for ASH in December of 2021.
−Removed: Top-line data for the primary endpoint of durable Complete Remission is expected
−Removed: to be presented in the third quarter of 2022.
−Removed: We believe topline data from SIERRA will support the submission of a Biologics License Application
−Removed: (“BLA”) with the U.S.
−Removed: Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), which we expect to file in the first half of 2023.
−Removed: Our Iomab-ACT program is intended
−Removed: for targeted conditioning prior to ACT or gene therapy and uses the same I-131-apamistamab construct as Iomab-B at varying doses.
−Removed: doses of one-eighth to one-sixth of the myeloablative dose, it is applicable for lymphodepletion prior to CAR-T or certain gene therapy
−Removed: applications where stem cell myeloablation is not necessary.
−Removed: At higher doses it is applicable for gene therapy applications where stem
−Removed: cell myeloablation is necessary.
−Removed: We believe our Iomab-ACT program
−Removed: is highly differentiated when compared to Fludarabine and Cyclophosphamide (“Flu/Cy”) or other chemotherapy-based regimens
−Removed: that are used as the standard of practice today for lymphodepletion prior to CAR-T.
−Removed: CD45 is an antigen expressed on certain immune cell
−Removed: types that are relevant to the mechanism of CAR-T therapies including lymphocytes, regulatory T-cells and macrophages that have been associated
−Removed: with clinical responses that may limit the safety, efficacy and durability of response of these CAR-T therapies including cytokine release
−Removed: syndrome (“CRS”) and neurotoxicity.
−Removed: Some of these limitations may be attributable to the chemotherapy-based conditioning agents
−Removed: that are being used prior to CAR-T therapies.
−Removed: Preclinical data supporting the rational for our Iomab-ACT program was presented at multiple
−Removed: medical conferences in 2019.
−Removed: Unlike chemotherapy, Iomab-ACT is targeted in nature and, due to this CD45-directed targeting, we expect
−Removed: we can improve CAR-T cell expansion, potentially resulting in responses that are more durable, but also resulting in reduced CAR-T related
−Removed: Importantly, we expect the Iomab-ACT program construct to enable lymphodepletion through a single-dose, outpatient administration
−Removed: versus Flu/Cy or other chemotherapy-based lymphodepletion regimens that can require multiple infusion cycles over several days.
−Removed: of this potentially superior profile, the Iomab-ACT construct could result in improved access to CAR-T therapy and better outcomes.
−Removed: We are studying Iomab-ACT in a
−Removed: clinical collaboration with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (“MSKCC”) for targeted conditioning prior to administration
−Removed: of MSKCC’s 19-28z CD19 targeting CAR-T in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (“ALL”)
−Removed: or diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (“DLBCL”).
−Removed: We received grant funding from the National Institute of Health (“NIH”)
−Removed: to fund this trial with MSKCC being a co-recipient on this grant.
−Removed: This is a first of its kind study to use an ARC-based conditioning regimen
−Removed: with CAR-T therapy.
−Removed: The hypothesized rationale for this study is that Iomab-ACT will exert an anti-tumor effect on the chemotherapy-refractory
−Removed: B-ALL cells that are sensitive to radiation resulting in reduced disease burden and simultaneously deplete CD45 expressing immune cells
−Removed: implicated in CAR-T related toxicities, resulting in an optimal homeostatic environment for the CAR-T cells.
−Removed: Results with MSKCC’s
−Removed: 19-28z CD-19 CAR-T in 53 patients with r/r B-ALL published in the New England Journal of Medicine reported complete remissions in 83%
−Removed: (44/53) of patients, which compares favorably to standard chemotherapy regimens that have complete remission rates of 18% - 45% in this
−Removed: patient population.
−Removed: Median event-free survival (EFS) was 6.1 months and median overall survival (OS) was 12.9 months at a median follow
−Removed: up period of 29 months (range 1 – 65 months).
−Removed: There was a 26% (14/53) rate of Grade 3 or greater CRS and a 42% rate of Grade 3 or
−Removed: 4 neurotoxicity reported.
−Removed: The study will evaluate the feasibility of using an ARC-based conditioning regimen with CAR-T therapy and will
−Removed: evaluate safety measures including incidence of CRS and neurotoxicity and efficacy measures including responses and survival outcomes.
−Removed: In March 2021, we announced that patient enrollment was initiated, and the first patient was administered Iomab-ACT followed by their
−Removed: 19-28z CAR-T therapy.
−Removed: We expect proof of concept data from this study in the second half of 2022.
−Removed: In addition, we are working
−Removed: in collaboration with the University of California Davis to utilize Iomab-ACT conditioning with a novel anti-HIV autologous gene therapy.
−Removed: We continue to identify additional gene therapies for which Iomab-ACT can be used for targeted conditioning with the goal of collaborating
−Removed: with multiple academic or industry developers to establish Iomab-ACT as a non-chemotherapy universal targeted conditioning solution.
−Removed: CD33 Program:
−Removed: Combinations and Therapeutics
−Removed: Our CD33 program is evaluating
−Removed: the clinical utility of Actimab-A, comprised of the anti-CD33 mAb lintuzumab linked to the potent alpha-emitting radioisotope Actinium-225
−Removed: CD33 is expressed in the majority of patients with AML and myelodysplastic syndrome (“MDS”) as well
−Removed: as approximately one-third of patients with multiple myeloma.
−Removed: Ac-225 emits four alpha particles and can kill a cell with one alpha-particle
−Removed: hit, making it one of the most powerful cell-killing agents with no know resistance mechanism to the double strand DNA breaks it can cause.
−Removed: We source Ac-225 from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
−Removed: Our CD33 development program
−Removed: is driven by data obtained from nearly one hundred fifty treated patients, including results from a Phase 1/2 trial that studied Actimab-A
−Removed: as a single agent at multiple dose levels in 58 patients with newly diagnosed AML, which was completed in 2018, as well as trials studying
−Removed: Actimab-A in combination with other agents.
−Removed: We believe that radiation delivered
−Removed: internally via a targeting moiety can be synergistic when used in combination with chemotherapy, targeted agents and immunotherapy based
−Removed: on mechanistic rationales supported by our own clinical data, preclinical research and scientific and clinical evidence in the literature.
−Removed: We have prioritized our efforts and resources in favor of combination trials for our CD33 program development strategy rather than single
−Removed: agent trials at this time as we believe Actimab-A can be a backbone therapy in AML when combined with other therapeutic modalities.
−Removed: CD33 development program encompasses the following ongoing trials:
−Removed: Actimab -A Combination Trials :
−Removed: Actimab-A + CLAG-M
−Removed: The combination of Actimab-A with CLAG-M has been
−Removed: studied in a Phase 1 combination trial that was conducted in collaboration with the Medical College of Wisconsin (“MCW”) in
−Removed: patients age 18 and above with r/r AML who are fit for intensive therapy.
−Removed: Patient enrollment was completed in November 2021.
−Removed: CLAG-M (cladribine,
−Removed: cytarabine, filgrastim and mitoxantrone) is a salvage chemotherapy regimen that produced a 55% remission rate in patients with r/r AML
−Removed: in a previous study conducted by MCW that compared outcomes of patients receiving either CLAG-M, MEC or CLAG salvage therapy regimens.
−Removed: Data from the Phase 1 combination trial of Actimab-A + CLAG-M were presented at ASH in December 2021.
−Removed: After completion of dose-escalation
−Removed: in the Phase 1 trial, the recommended Phase 2 dose was determined to be 0.75 µCi/kg of Actimab-A.
−Removed: 3 patients were enrolled in the
−Removed: 0.75 µCi/kg dose cohort, which had a 100% remission rate comprised of 1 complete remission (“CR”) and 2 complete remissions
−Removed: with incomplete platelet recovery (“CRp”), there were no dose limiting toxicities (“DLTs”) or 30-day mortality
−Removed: Overall, a 67% (12/18) overall response rate (“ORR”) was reported across all dose cohorts (0.25 – 1.0 µCi/kg)
−Removed: and remissions were achieved in every dose cohort including the 0.25 and 0.50 µCi/kg doses of Actimab-A, which have been shown to
−Removed: be subtherapeutic as a single agent.
−Removed: In addition, there was a 72% minimal residual disease (“MRD”) negativity rate, which
−Removed: compares favorably to the 39% MRD negativity rate reported by MCW with CLAG-M alone.
−Removed: This study enrolled patients who previously failed
−Removed: Venetoclax, a targeted Bcl-2 inhibitor, and efficacy was similar in patients Venetoclax naïve and those that previously failed Venetoclax,
−Removed: with a 60% response rate in previous Venetoclax failures.
−Removed: We are working to develop a regulatory and development pathway for the Actimab-A
−Removed: CLAG-M combination and will be evaluating potential registration enabling strategies.
−Removed: In addition, we believe this Actimab-A + CLAG-M
−Removed: combination study has provided proof of principle that the addition of Actimab-A to other AML therapies can lead to well-tolerated regimens
−Removed: with improved responses, which supports our Actimab-A backbone therapy in AML strategy.
−Removed: Actimab-A + Venetoclax
−Removed: We are also conducting a Phase
−Removed: 1/2 Actimab-A combination trial with the Bcl-2 inhibitor Venetoclax in fit and unfit patients age 18 and above with relapsed or refractory
−Removed: This multi-center trial is being led by UCLA Medical Center.
−Removed: This combination is supported by mechanistic evidence in preclinical
−Removed: studies using Venetoclax -resistant AML tumor cell lines.
−Removed: In these models, we have demonstrated that Actimab-A can deplete Mcl-1 and Bcl-XL,
−Removed: two proteins implicated in mediating resistance to Venetoclax, in addition to causing potentially lethal double-stranded DNA breaks in
−Removed: these CD33 expressing cells.
−Removed: Furthermore, in vivo studies in animal models of Venetoclax-resistant AML demonstrated robust tumor regression
−Removed: and improved survival in cohorts receiving the Actimab-A Venetoclax combination compared to Venetoclax alone.
−Removed: The rationale for this clinical
−Removed: study is that the addition of Actimab-A will;
−Removed: 1) have a direct anti-tumor effect via double-stranded DNA breaks and 2) deplete Mcl-1 and
−Removed: Bcl-XL making the AML cells more susceptible to Venetoclax.
−Removed: Updated data from the Phase 1 dose escalation portion of this study was presented
−Removed: at ASH in December 2021 from three dose cohorts of 0.50, 0.75 and 1.0 µCi/kg of Actimab-A in a total of 12 patients.
−Removed: 50% of patients
−Removed: received Venetoclax therapy prior to enrollment on the Actimab-A combination trial.
−Removed: And 67% of patients had poor risk cytogenetics, of
−Removed: which, 3 had a TP53 mutation, which is associate with poorer response rates and survival outcomes.
−Removed: Of the patients with a TP53 mutation,
−Removed: 67% achieved a remission including a patient that achieved a CR and at the time of data cutoff for ASH, the patient was in follow-up 230
−Removed: days (~7.5 months).
−Removed: The combination of Actimab-A with Venetoclax was reported to be well-tolerated with no 30-day mortality.
−Removed: to date support advancing to the Phase 2 portion of the trial and we expect to provide an update on the development strategy, including
−Removed: consideration of patients with a TP53 mutation, after the Phase 1 dose finding portion of the trial is complete and the recommended Phase
−Removed: 2 dose is determined.
−Removed: In addition to these ongoing
−Removed: trials, we actively seek and evaluate additional modalities and agents that can be the basis for Actimab-A therapeutic combinations such
−Removed: as the CD47 immunotherapy magrolimab combinations we announced at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer in November 2021 to leverage
−Removed: our clinical experience, supply chain and AWE technology platform.
−Removed: CD47 Based ARC Combinations in Solid Tumors
−Removed: and Blood Cancers
−Removed: CD47 is a macrophage checkpoint
−Removed: that is upregulated in multiple cancers including blood cancers such as AML and MDS as well as solid tumors.
−Removed: CD47 acts as a “don’t
−Removed: eat me” signal on cancer cells to suppress phagocytosis and evade detection and destruction by the immune system.
−Removed: It has become
−Removed: an immunotherapy target of significant interest with multiple biopharmaceutical companies actively developing CD47 targeting agents across
−Removed: a wide range of oncology and hematology indications.
−Removed: CD47 targeting agents have shown limited efficacy as single agent monotherapies in
−Removed: AML/MDS or solid tumors, which has led to combinations such as with hypomethylating agents in AML/MDS.
−Removed: We hypothesized that targeted radiotherapy
−Removed: via ARCs could synergize with CD47 targeting agents via the direct cytotoxic and immunogenic effect of ARCs without overlapping toxicities.
−Removed: To explore this synergy and the potential to improve patient outcomes and we have initiated a program in AML with our Actimab-A ARC, consistent
−Removed: with our strategy to establish Actimab-A a backbone AML therapy, and in solid tumors with a HER-2 targeting ARC, which emanated from our
−Removed: AWE technology platform.
−Removed: To our knowledge, these are the first and only ARC-based targeted radiotherapy combinations with CD47 immunotherapy.
−Removed: Data from these novel combinations were presented at the 36 th Annual Meeting of the Society for Immunotherapy for Cancer.
−Removed: The most advanced CD47 development
−Removed: programs are being studied in patients with AML and MDS.
−Removed: Leveraging our clinical experience with Actimab-A in these indications we have
−Removed: begun studying Actimab-A with the anti-CD47 antibody immunotherapy magrolimab, which is owned by Gilead Sciences, Inc., in preclinical
−Removed: models of AML.
−Removed: In preclinical models, it was shown that in multiple AML cell lines, the combination of Actimab-A with magrolimab led to
−Removed: increased phagocytosis of AML cells compared to magrolimab alone.
−Removed: Our studies also demonstrated that AML cell lines exposed to Actimab-A
−Removed: had an upregulation of calreticulin, which is a pro-phagocytic or “eat me” signal, which we hypothesize makes Actimab-A potentially
−Removed: synergistic with magrolimab and other anti-CD47 antibodies.
−Removed: The Actimab-A and magrolimab combination showed a significant increase in
−Removed: survival compared to Actimab-A alone in a disseminated AML animal tumor model.
−Removed: We intend to continue to study preclinically this combination
−Removed: with the goal of advancing to human clinical trials.
−Removed: In January 2022, we announced
−Removed: a research collaboration with EpicentRx that will evaluate Actimab-A in combination with EpicentRx’s RRx-001in AML.
−Removed: RRx-001, currently under investigation in a Phase 3 trial for Small Cell Lung Cancer and in other oncology and non-oncology indications,
−Removed: is a versatile next generation small molecule immunotherapeutic that targets the CD47-SIRPα axis and the NLRP3 inflammasome to
−Removed: alter the tumor microenvironment and optimize immune response.
−Removed: This collaboration will explore the mechanistic synergy of RRx-001’s
−Removed: CD47–SIRPα downregulation with Actinium’s targeted radiotherapy calreticulin upregulation to increase the immune detection
−Removed: and destruction of cancer cells.
−Removed: Preclinical experiments have begun exploring this combination in AML models.
−Removed: We intend to leverage our
−Removed: experience with CD47 targeting agents such as magrolimab in this collaboration.
−Removed: Based on Actimab-A and RRx-001 both being clinical-stage
−Removed: assets, we believe there is a potentially faster pathway to clinical trials with this novel combination, particularly if the preclinical
−Removed: safety and efficacy profile are in line with what was observed with Actimab-A and magrolimab.
−Removed: Antibody Warhead Enabling Technology Platform
−Removed: Our proprietary AWE technology
−Removed: platform is supported by intellectual property, know-how and trade secrets that cover the generation, development, methods of use and
−Removed: manufacture of targeted radiotherapies and certain of their components.
−Removed: Our AWE technology patent portfolio presently includes 39 patent
−Removed: families comprised of 173 issued patents and pending patent applications, of which 8 are issued and 30 are pending in the United States,
−Removed: and 135 are issued or pending internationally.
−Removed: The effective lives of the issued patents in our portfolio, or patents that may issue from
−Removed: the pending applications in our portfolio, ranges from expirations between 2024 and 2042.
−Removed: Our technology enables the direct labeling,
−Removed: or conjugation and labeling, of a biomolecular targeting agent to a radionuclide warhead and its development and use as a therapeutic
−Removed: regimen for the treatment of diseases such as cancer.
−Removed: Our AWE intellectual property covers various methods of use in multiple diseases,
−Removed: including indication, dose and scheduling, radionuclide warhead, and therapeutic combinations.
−Removed: We have particular expertise in utilizing
−Removed: the alpha emitting isotope Ac-225 including clinical experience in treating approximately 150 patients with our alpha-emitter-based therapies,
−Removed: “gold standard” linker technology and 5 issued patents in the United States and 49 patents internationally related to the
−Removed: manufacturing or Ac-225 in a cyclotron, which we believe has the potential to produce higher quantities of Ac-225 than currently utilized
−Removed: In 2021 we have enhanced our
−Removed: research and development capabilities around AWE by securing and staffing research facilities.
−Removed: Our research laboratories are focused on
−Removed: applying our AWE technology platform to the development of radiation conjugates and to execute on research collaborations.
−Removed: efforts employ a multidisciplinary approach leveraging our team’s knowledge and experience in cancer cell biology, radiochemistry,
−Removed: radiation sciences, immunology and oncology drug development.
−Removed: We intend to focus on generating targeted radiotherapies using our existing
−Removed: intellectual property, evaluating assets for in-licensing to complement our existing clinical pipeline and securing collaborations and
−Removed: partnerships with biopharmaceutical companies.
−Removed: By adding research and development capabilities to our clinical development and clinical
−Removed: supply chain capabilities, we seek to enable the rapid translation of radiotherapies.
−Removed: Our AWE technology platform
−Removed: is being utilized in our ongoing research collaboration with Astellas to arm select targeting agents owned by Astellas with the alpha-emitting
−Removed: radioisotope Ac-225 for the development of theranostics for solid tumor indications, which combine the ability of radioisotopes to be
−Removed: used for both diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.
−Removed: We also utilized AWE to create aHER2-targeting radiotherapy using
−Removed: the antibody Trastuzumab with either Ac-225 or Lu-177 radioisotopes to study in combination with magrolimab for solid tumors.
−Removed: monotherapies, such as magrolimab, have not shown meaningful responses in clinical studies in solid tumors.
−Removed: We hypothesized that radiation
−Removed: directed at HER2 expressing cells would upregulate cell surface calreticulin, a pro-phagocytic “eat me” signal, that when
−Removed: combined with an anti-CD47 blockade therapy would enhance antitumor activity.
−Removed: Data from this combination was presented at the Annual Meeting
−Removed: of the Society for Immunotherapy for Cancer in November 2021.
−Removed: In vitro studies showed that immunogenicity, determined by binding to HER2
−Removed: expressing cells, remained intact after radiolabeling Trastuzumab with Ac-225 or Lu-177.
−Removed: In multiple cells lines radiolabeled Trastuzumab
−Removed: increased cell surface calreticulin and the combination with magrolimab increased phagocytosis.
−Removed: The combination of the Ac-225 or Lu-117
−Removed: Trastuzumab with magrolimab slowed tumor growth in animal models of solid tumors compared to either the radiolabeled Trastuzumab or magrolimab
−Removed: as single agents.
−Removed: We are continuing to evaluate this combination in additional tumor models, and we intend to continue to study this combination
−Removed: with the goal of advancing to human clinical trials.
−Removed: We are also collaborating
−Removed: with AVEO Oncology (“AVEO”) to develop a targeted radiotherapy against ErbB3, also known as HER3, with the Ac-225 isotope
−Removed: for solid tumor indications.
−Removed: HER3 is overexpressed in several solid tumor indications with high unmet needs, including colorectal, gastric,
−Removed: head and neck, breast, ovarian, melanoma, prostate and bladder cancers with HER3 agents under development demonstrating activity in preclinical
−Removed: and clinical studies.
−Removed: To our knowledge, this is the first HER3 targeting radiotherapy in development.
−Removed: AVEO is developing high affinity
−Removed: antibodies including HER3 targeting AV-203, which has demonstrated preclinical activity across a number of solid tumor indications and
−Removed: was studied in a Phase 1 open-label trial in patients with advanced solid tumors where it was found to be safe and generally well tolerated.
−Removed: In March 2022, we announced that data from studies of Ac-225 radiolabeled HER3 antibody have been accepted for presentation at the American
−Removed: Association for Cancer Research (“AACR”) Annual Meeting.
−Removed: Preliminary results contained in the AACR abstract showed potent
−Removed: tumor cell cytotoxicity, complete anti-tumor response in a HER3 tumor xenograft models and significantly prolonged survival compared to
−Removed: control groups (p<0.0001).
−Removed: Additional data from these studies will be presented at AACR in April 2022.
−Removed: We believe these preliminary
−Removed: results support our collaboration with AVEO and given that AV-203 has clinical safety data, a potentially accelerated regulatory pathway
−Removed: to clinical studies with an Ac-225 HER3 targeted radiotherapy.
−Removed: Intellectual Property Portfolio and Regulatory Protections
+Added: (“Actinium”) is a biopharmaceutical
+Added: company developing targeted radiotherapies to deliver cancer-killing radiation with cellular level precision to treat patients with high
+Added: unmet medical needs.
+Added: Our vision is to build a specialty, hospital focused radiotherapeutics company that develops and markets medicines
+Added: for relapsed or refractory cancer patients who are treated primarily in large quaternary care hospitals and their catchment areas.
+Added: intend to leverage the clinical data of our lead product candidates, Iomab-B and Actimab-A, to improve outcomes in patients with relapsed
+Added: or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (“r/r AML”) by launching two radiotherapy drugs in 5 years that address the significant
+Added: need for better outcomes from treatment with therapeutics or from undergoing a bone marrow transplant (“BMT”).
+Added: We also intend during this time frame to further advance Iomab-B outside
+Added: of acute myeloid leukemia (“AML”) based on promising data as a disease control and conditioning agent for various other blood
+Added: Based on early promising clinical trial results, we are also working on a lower dose next generation conditioning program, Iomab-ACT,
+Added: for rapidly growing cell and gene therapies.
+Added: Our Clinical Pipeline
+Added: AML is an aggressive, heterogeneous disease that is difficult-to-treat.
+Added: Most AML patients develop relapsed or refractory disease within one year and have an extremely poor prognosis and dismal survival.
+Added: a BMT is the only curative regimen available for AML patients, however, access is limited to AML patients who are fit enough to withstand
+Added: the challenges associated with this treatment.
+Added: The majority of AML patients are considered not transplantable in routine clinical practice
+Added: as they are not fit enough to withstand the rigors of the patient journey which includes:
+Added: therapy to attain a remission, conditioning
+Added: regimens to destroy diseased marrow, challenge of the transplant itself or post-transplant complications.
+Added: Our Iomab-B and Actimab-A product candidates fill the major unmet medical
+Added: needs in r/r AML in a complementary fashion as they are directed at different parts of the patient journey.
+Added: Iomab-B is a targeted bridging
+Added: therapy that provides both disease control and conditioning in one agent.
+Added: Results from a phase 3 trial has demonstrated unprecedented
+Added: access to a BMT and improved survival in unfit patients who are currently not considered transplantable in routine clinical practice.
+Added: Actimab-A is a targeted therapy for fit patients that has demonstrated an impressive extension in survival in a proof-of-concept study
+Added: and is poised for advanced development in collaboration with the NCI, or National Cancer Institute.
+Added: Together, they provide us the opportunity
+Added: to transform the treatment of AML, especially in the relapsed and refractory segment which represents over 50% of AML patients.
+Added: On October 31, 2022, we announced topline results from the pivotal
+Added: Phase 3 Study of Iomab-B in Elderly Relapsed or Refractory AML or SIERRA trial, which demonstrated that Iomab-B met the primary endpoint
+Added: of durable Complete Remission (“dCR”) with a high degree of statistical significance (p<0.0001).
+Added: On February 18, 2023,
+Added: we announced full trial results, demonstrating unprecedented access, improved outcomes and better safety and tolerability with double
+Added: 1-year and median overall survival (“OS”) compared to control arm patients receiving Iomab-B at the 2023 Tandem Meetings aka
+Added: the Transplantation & Cellular Therapy Meetings of the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (“ASTCT”)
+Added: and the Center for International Blood & Marrow Transplant Research (“CIBMTR”).
+Added: We believe these results provide the opportunity
+Added: to establish Iomab-B as a new standard of care, and if approved, we intend to commercialize the product in the United States (“U.S.”).
+Added: On April 12, 2022, we announced a commercialization
+Added: agreement for Iomab-B with Immedica AB (“Immedica”) for exclusive rights in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (“EUMENA”).
+Added: Actinium received an upfront payment of $35 million USD with the potential for an additional $417 million USD in regulatory and sales
+Added: milestones and mid-twenty percent royalties.
+Added: The market in the EU region is attractive due to the higher incidence of AML and number of
+Added: BMT procedures compared to the U.S.
+Added: with the same unmet patient need, and our partnership with Immedica positions us well to capitalize
+Added: on this opportunity.
+Added: Actimab-A is the industry-leading program, leveraging the potent alpha
+Added: radiation emitting isotope Actinium-225 (“Ac-225”) based on clinical development in approximately 150 patients treated over
+Added: 6 clinical trials.
+Added: The potent linear energy transfer emitted by Ac-225 has no known resistance mechanism.
+Added: Actimab-A is being developed
+Added: in combination with other regimens to exploit mechanistic synergies and leverage the mutation-agnostic mechanism of action of Ac-225 with
+Added: the objective of establishing it as a backbone therapy in AML, an extremely heterogenous disease.
+Added: On December 10, 2022, we shared the Phase 1 results from the Actimab-A
+Added: CLAG-M combination trial at the American Society of Hematology (“ASH”) Annual Meeting & Exposition that showed high response
+Added: rates and minimal residual disease (“MRD”) negativity, translating to a meaningful survival benefit of 53%and 32%at one and
+Added: two years in patients who are typically expected to live two to four months.
+Added: At the same meeting, we shared Phase 1 data showing that
+Added: the combination of Actimab-A + venetoclax was well-tolerated with responses, including a Complete Remission (“CR”) and a partial
+Added: response in early dose escalation cohorts.
+Added: We believe the promise of these results paved the way for the NCI Cooperative Research and
+Added: Development Agreement (“CRADA”), announced on February 6, 2023, to develop Actimab-A for the treatment of patients with AML
+Added: and other hematologic malignancies.
+Added: Our differentiated R&D is further exemplified by our next-generation
+Added: Iomab-ACT conditioning program for rapidly growing cell and gene therapies, as well as our solid tumor and immunotherapy collaborations
+Added: with Astellas Pharma Inc.
+Added: (“Astellas”), AVEO Oncology/LG Chem (“LG Chem”) and EpicentRx, Inc.
+Added: (“EpicentRx”).
+Added: In addition, we have several other programs in solid tumors at the pre-clinical stage with investigational new drug (“IND”)
+Added: enabling studies ongoing and our extensive intellectual property (“IP”) portfolio includes over 200 issued patents and pending
+Added: patent applications worldwide.
+Added: We are actively working on launching an early access program (“EAP”)
+Added: for Iomab-B and intend to file a Biologics License Application (“BLA”) by year-end while preparing for a U.S.
+Added: commercial launch
+Added: and working with our partner Immedica to support the Marketing Authorization Application (“MAA”) and commercialization in
+Added: Late-stage Actimab-A development is expected to begin in the second half of 2023 under the NCI CRADA and is anticipated to have
+Added: a material balance sheet sparing impact over the next several years.
+Added: We expect to create significant value due to the combination of major
+Added: milestones and balance sheet strength with the approximately $100 million cash on hand at year-end 2022 projected to fund operations through
+Added: 2025 as we continue to drive ahead with realizing our five-year plan.
+Added: Market Opportunity
+Added: The market opportunity for Iomab-B and Actimab-A, as depicted in the
+Added: diagram below, exists in AML and for cellular therapy conditioning in various blood cancers.
+Added: We believe that Iomab-B and Actimab-A can
+Added: fill the major unmet medical needs in r/r AML in a complementary fashion as they are utilized in different parts of the patient treatment
+Added: The incidence of AML is approximately 21,000 patients per year, with a prevalence of approximately 70,000 in the U.S., (approximately
+Added: 27,500 new patients per year in Europe) and the disease has an outsized economic impact relative to its population size.
+Added: Over 50% of patients
+Added: diagnosed with AML will develop relapsed or refractory disease, with a median age of 68 years at diagnosis.
+Added: Despite 10 new approved therapies
+Added: since 2017, no significant advancements have been made toward a cure and there is a significant unmet need for better therapeutics, which
+Added: provide the opportunity for Actimab-A.
+Added: Actimab-A is a targeted radiotherapy for fit patients that has demonstrated an impressive improvement
+Added: in survival in a proof-of-concept study and is poised for advanced development in collaboration with the NCI.
+Added: Using Actimab-A in combination
+Added: with chemotherapy or a targeted therapy, we have the potential opportunity to treat both newly diagnosed or r/r AML patients, with the
+Added: potential addressable population comparable to the prevalence of patients with AML.
+Added: Today, less than 20% of AML patients are able to access a BMT, currently
+Added: the only potentially curative option.
+Added: These patients are usually younger, fit, and able to withstand the challenges associated with this
+Added: treatment, leaving the large majority of AML patients ineligible for transplant.
+Added: This provides an opportunity for Iomab-B, which has demonstrated
+Added: the ability to enable unfit patients to benefit from a BMT.
+Added: Thus Iomab-B can potentially expand the market from the approximately 400
+Added: r/r AML patients who are transplanted currently to approximately 8,000 unfit patients that could be eligible for transplant.
+Added: demonstrated the ability to improve BMT access with extended survival and potentially curative outcomes in several other hematological
+Added: diseases outside of AML.
+Added: Several clinical trials in over 300 patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (“MDS”), acute lymphocytic
+Added: leukemia (“ALL”), Hodgkin’s lymphoma (“HL”), Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (“NHL”) and multiple myeloma
+Added: (“MM”) have demonstrated the same value proposition as in AML.
+Added: This data provides an opportunity to expand the market for
+Added: Iomab-B beyond AML via label expansion.
+Added: In the U.S., there are approximately 185,000 patients diagnosed with blood cancers (e.g., leukemia,
+Added: lymphoma, and myeloma) that are treatable with BMT, of which, only approximately 20,000 are transplanted, leaving greater than 165,000
+Added: patients who could potentially benefit from transplant.
+Added: These patients do not receive a BMT today primarily because they are unfit with
+Added: active disease and are not considered eligible, as they cannot tolerate the rigors of therapy required to induce a remission and the conditioning
+Added: agents required to ablate the marrow prior to a BMT.
+Added: Beyond BMT, the opportunity exists for better conditioning in other
+Added: areas of cellular therapy such as CAR-T as well as gene therapies.
+Added: The pipeline of CAR-T and gene therapies has rapidly expanded, with
+Added: the addressable patient population expected to nearly double in the next one to five years and reach approximately 93,000 patients in
+Added: by 2030 based on the current pipeline.
+Added: The CAR-T market size in terms of dollars is estimated to grow at a CAGR of approximately
+Added: 11% over the next 5 plus years.
+Added: The addressable market for Iomab-ACT is in line with the patient population for cellular therapy as all
+Added: patients receive conditioning of some type prior to these treatments.
+Added: We will continue to develop Iomab-ACT, our lower dose, next generation
+Added: conditioning program for rapidly growing cell and gene therapies based on early promising results, ultimately with the value proposition
+Added: of improving overall access and outcomes for patients who need cellular or gene therapies.
+Added: Actinium’s strategy is to build a fully-integrated, specialty
+Added: radiotherapeutics company focused on the top 100 cancer hospitals using the power of our platform to deliver new treatment options for
+Added: patient populations living with high unmet medical needs in hematology and oncology.
+Added: We believe our focus on relapsed and refractory disease
+Added: in cancer indications with high unmet medical need, with limited or no competition, and where the primary delivery of care occurs in a
+Added: few large comprehensive cancer care centers, is the appropriate strategy for our company.
+Added: The cell killing power of linear energy transfer
+Added: delivered via radiotherapeutics is unmatched by other technologies and we believe relapsed, refractory disease is an area where radiotherapeutics
+Added: can succeed over other approaches.
+Added: However, radiotherapeutics must be delivered on a just-in-time basis, and commercial and supply chain
+Added: barriers are higher than with other types of medicines.
+Added: The validity of our approach is demonstrated by our product development strategy
+Added: as well as the commercial and operating model that we are building for our lead product candidates, Iomab-B and Actimab-A.
+Added: We intend to transform the treatment of AML with our Iomab-B and Actimab-A
+Added: product candidates, each of which has demonstrated impressive extension of survival in the most difficult-to-treat patients who are typically
+Added: expected to survive two to four months.
+Added: The r/r AML segment comprises over 50% of all AML patients.
+Added: Actimab-A, a therapeutic agent, and
+Added: Iomab-B for induction and conditioning, can be used in a complementary fashion as depicted in the diagram below.
+Added: Based on solid clinical
+Added: evidence with these product candidates, we intend to develop and commercialize these two radiotherapy drugs, starting with Iomab-B in
+Added: 2024 and Actimab-A in 2027, if approved, to improve survival in patients with r/r AML.
+Added: Iomab-B and Actimab-A have the potential
+Added: to significantly improve r/r AML outcomes in a complementary manner
+Added: The operating model required to achieve our vision is attractive for
+Added: several reasons, including the concentrated point of care;
+Added: the top 50 transplant centers account for approximately 75% of BMTs and the
+Added: top 100 hospitals treat over 50 percent of r/r AML patients.
+Added: Further, there is significant overlap in the healthcare providers and ecosystem
+Added: required to diagnose, treat and care for r/r AML patients within these hospitals, which will enable us to deploy a relatively small commercial
+Added: organization and operate a supply chain without the need for large investments.
+Added: Our product pipeline is targeting a broader opportunity
+Added: in conditioning via label expansion of Iomab-B into BMT for other blood cancers and with Iomab-ACT, our next generation conditioning program
+Added: for rapidly growing cell and gene therapies.
+Added: Further, our solid tumor programs are initially directed at relapsed or refractory cancers,
+Added: a stage of disease where treatment is again concentrated in large hospitals, which account for a significant portion of patients.
+Added: our strategy will enable us to build a successful company with high operating efficiencies and is feasible to achieve without requiring
+Added: a commercial partner.
+Added: Our strategic priorities are to:
+Added: Establish Iomab-B as the standard of care to improve BMT access and survival outcomes in r/r AML patients who are currently not considered transplantable in routine clinical practice:
+Added: We intend to file a BLA in the second half of 2023 based on the strong results from the Pivotal Phase 3 SIERRA trial and leverage our proven operating track record at key cancer centers to build a high impact organization that can effectively commercialize Iomab-B.
+Added: By virtue of the SIERRA trial, we have established operations at 24 leading BMT centers that represent about 30% of transplant volume in the U.S.
+Added: and have strong working partnership with Key Opinion Leaders and their teams.
+Added: The positive SIERRA results demonstrating unprecedented access to BMT and outcomes along with our commitment to operational excellence provides a strong foundation for our commercial team in the U.S.
+Added: We will also work with our partner Immedica to file the MAA for the EU and support Iomab-B’s potential approval and launch with our expertise, as well as supply drug product for commercialization.
+Added: Advance Actimab-A in combinations as a backbone therapy for r/r AML:
+Added: We intend to progress late-stage development of Actimab-A to leverage its mutation-agnostic mechanism of action and exploit synergies by combining with other treatments to develop it as an AML backbone therapy.
+Added: This approach is validated by proof-of-concept data from our Actimab-A + CLAG-M combination trial in r/r AML, which included 57% of patients who had failed venetoclax and live two to four months on average.
+Added: The results demonstrated high response rates overall and in these venetoclax failed patients median overall survival was 59% at one year and thirty-two percent at two years.
+Added: Our collaboration with the NCI under the CRADA will provide broad support for late-stage development of Actimab-A + CLAG-M and also other clinical trials to broaden use while preserving our balance sheet.
+Added: Actimab-A, if approved, would enable us to launch a second product that is complementary to Iomab-B and fulfill our ambition of radically transforming the treatment outcomes of r/r AML and expand our commercial footprint into the remaining top 100 cancer care centers outside of the leading BMT hospitals.
+Added: Expand the Iomab-B label and revenue stream via life cycle management:
+Added: We intend to leverage data from several clinical trials that demonstrate the ability of Iomab-B to improve BMT access and outcomes in five additional hematologic indications.
+Added: These data in MDS, ALL, HL, NHL and MM provide the foundation to expand the label for Iomab-B and increase its market potential.
+Added: In AML, we would seek label expansion into haploidentical transplants, earlier lines of treatment and younger patients below the age of 55, the cutoff in the SIERRA trial.
+Added: As much as possible, we would seek to use investigator sponsored trials as the primary strategy for label expansion in order to maximize capital utilization.
+Added: Further expand our conditioning franchise by developing Iomab-ACT for cell and gene therapies:
+Added: We plan to develop Iomab-ACT to be used for either lymphodepletion or reduced intensity conditioning prior to CAR-T and gene therapies.
+Added: Similar to BMT, access and outcomes of patients who might benefit from these therapies is limited by sub-optimal chemotherapy-based conditioning agents.
+Added: The number of patients potentially eligible for Iomab-ACT is growing with increased availability of commercial cell and gene therapy products, as well as the expanding number of indications.
+Added: We are studying Iomab-ACT in conditioning prior to CAR-T cellular therapy via a National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) funded clinical trial with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (“MSKCC”).
+Added: We expect to present proof-of-concept data from this study in the second half of 2023 and announce further development of this program in the CAR-T space.
+Added: Leverage our R&D capabilities and technological prowess to advance our solid tumor programs and partnerships:
+Added: We intend to continue to direct our R&D effort to advance our solid tumor programs into the clinic and support life cycle management for Iomab-B and Actimab-A.
+Added: Our solid tumor programs and technological capabilities are validated by our partnerships with Astellas, LG Chem, and EpicentRx, which are focused on solid tumors and immunotherapies.
+Added: Our R&D prowess is demonstrated by our robust patent portfolio with over 200 issued and pending patent applications worldwide which include protection for Iomab-B into 2037.
+Added: Our IP portfolio also includes several patent families to manufacture Ac-225 in a cyclotron, and valuable know-how.
+Added: In keeping with our strategic vision over the next five years, we would
+Added: first focus our energies on ensuring an Iomab-B approval and successful launch into core BMT centers to ensure commercial success.
+Added: intend to expand the Iomab-B label and revenue stream in a capital efficient manner while progressing the development of Actimab-A by
+Added: leveraging the NCI CRADA and its balance sheet sparing opportunity.
+Added: We will progress the development of Iomab-ACT to proof-of-concept
+Added: and explore partnerships as a means to achieve commercialization.
+Added: Our solid tumor programs will progress toward the clinic as we continue
+Added: to build out our commercial footprint into the top 100 hospitals leaving us well-positioned to develop them in accordance with our vision.
+Added: With commercial dynamics aligning favorably for a successful Iomab-B launch and with late-stage development of Actimab-A in collaboration
+Added: with the NCI, we plan to deliver on our mission to transform the treatment of AML and patient outcomes, and create a highly differentiated,
+Added: specialty radiotherapeutics company focused on the top 100 large hospitals.
+Added: Our Product Pipeline
+Added: We have strategically focused our development
+Added: efforts in areas where there is a significant unmet medical need.
+Added: We are developing a portfolio of novel radiotherapeutics that has the
+Added: potential to positively impact the outcomes of people living with hard-to-treat diseases such as r/r AML via both a therapeutic and induction/conditioning
+Added: Outside of AML, our pipeline development offers the opportunity to enhance the value proposition of cell and gene therapies with
+Added: our targeted conditioning programs.
+Added: AML Focused Programs – Iomab-B
+Added: and Actimab-A
+Added: Our Iomab-B and Actimab-A product candidates are
+Added: focused on addressing the major unmet medical needs in r/r AML in a complementary manner and are directed at different parts of the patient
+Added: Iomab-B – Targeted Radiotherapeutic
+Added: for Induction and Conditioning.
+Added: A potential new standard of care enabling a curative BMT in currently non-transplantable r/r AML patients
+Added: with poor survival prognosis
+Added: Opportunity to Change the Current Paradigm
+Added: for Accessing a BMT and Improving Outcomes
+Added: The current approach in preparing patients
+Added: for a BMT is to first induce a remission with therapeutic agents to reduce the disease burden and then suppress or destroy the
+Added: patient’s immune system, including the diseased bone marrow, with conditioning regimens prior to transplanting the healthy
+Added: donor hematopoietic stem cells, which are expected to restore normal bone marrow function following engraftment.
+Added: As this approach
+Added: requires patients to withstand multiple challenges from non-targeted therapies, which include chemotherapy agents and/or total body
+Added: irradiation that are highly toxic, BMT is typically limited to FIT patients.
+Added: Iomab-B is a targeted therapy that provides both
+Added: disease control and conditioning in one agent and is well-tolerated even by UNFIT patients who typically are not transplanted in
+Added: routine practice today.
+Added: The SIERRA trial was designed to demonstrate that UNFIT patients with active disease could be
+Added: administered Iomab-B and proceed directly to a BMT without the need for inducing a remission and that this approach could result in
+Added: improved survival and curative outcomes.
+Added: As seen by the positive results of the SIERRA trial detailed below, Iomab-B represents an
+Added: exciting new paradigm in the management of AML patients and establishes a potential new standard of care especially for UNFIT
+Added: patients in the relapsed or refractory setting.
+Added: A similar approach has also been tried in the Phase 3 ASAP trial but
+Added: with FIT patients.
+Added: However, to avoid confusion between the potential of the approaches used in the ASAP and SIERRA trials, important distinctions
+Added: between these trials are depicted in the graphic below.
+Added: The ASAP trial sought to demonstrate non-inferiority between two non-novel approaches
+Added: and found that outcomes similar to those of current practice could be achieved without first getting a patient into remission before taking
+Added: them to BMT by giving them sequential conditioning or treating them twice with non-targeted chemotherapy agents that are typically used
+Added: in this setting.
+Added: The ASAP approach is limited to only FIT patients as the UNFIT patients
+Added: treated in SIERRA could not tolerate ASAP’s highly toxic sequential conditioning approach.
+Added: Sequential conditioning is not novel
+Added: as a similar trial to ASAP was conducted by the UK National Cancer Research Institute in 2019, which did not show any benefit from this
+Added: approach in high-risk AML and MDS patients (Craddock et al.
+Added: Augmented Reduced Intensity Regimen Does Not Improve Postallogeneic Transplant
+Added: Outcomes in Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
+Added: J Clin Oncol.
+Added: The SIERRA trial results therefore can change the paradigm in transplant
+Added: because non-transplantable patients in routine clinical practice can benefit from a transplant with Iomab-B and have superior outcomes.
+Added: While both approaches in these trials support increased access to BMT, only Iomab-B is applicable to the unfit patients who comprise approximately
+Added: 80%of r/r AML patients and can potentially expand the market for transplant.
+Added: Schetelig et al.
+Added: Results from the Randomized
+Added: Phase III ASAP Trial.
+Added: Pivotal Phase 3 SIERRA Trial for Iomab-B ( 131 Iodine-apamistamab)
+Added: The SIERRA trial was designed to demonstrate the
+Added: ability of Iomab-B to overcome challenges related to patient access to curative BMT.
+Added: Unfortunately, approximately 30% of patients with
+Added: AML have primary refractory disease while 50% relapse quickly after achieving initial remission.
+Added: Getting these patients with primary r/r
+Added: AML into remission is very challenging due to characteristics such as age, comorbidities, and disease features such as high-risk mutations
+Added: that contribute to lack of response to salvage therapies and limit treatment options.
+Added: Patients must be able to overcome several challenges related to curative
+Added: The first access challenge is that the patient needs to be in complete remission prior to BMT.
+Added: The current clinical practice is not
+Added: to transplant patients with active AML as outcomes are poor due to high relapse rates.
+Added: The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (“NCCN”)
+Added: guidelines also recommend treatment to achieve remission prior to transplant in patients with relapsed AML.
+Added: The second challenge to access
+Added: is tolerance to current conditioning regimens.
+Added: For older patients, myeloablative regimens are not an option due to intense toxicity and
+Added: The third challenge is the ability to achieve post-BMT remission and successful engraftment.
+Added: Inadequate conditioning can lead
+Added: to graft failure, which is associated with very high mortality.
+Added: Patients who fail to achieve a CR post-transplant have extremely poor
+Added: outcomes and a survival of a few weeks.
+Added: The fourth challenge relates to BMT tolerability and post-BMT complications.
+Added: The conditioning
+Added: and immunosuppressive regimens given to these patients put them at high risk for infectious complications and toxicity.
+Added: In the SIERRA
+Added: trial, Iomab-B addresses all four of these challenges.
+Added: Access to BMT is improved as CR is not needed pre-BMT given effective disease control
+Added: and targeted myeloablation.
+Added: With better post-BMT engraftment, CR and lower complications, the SIERRA trial also addressed the challenges
+Added: related to improved outcomes through Iomab-B.
+Added: The SIERRA results, presented in the late-breaker session at the 2023
+Added: Tandem Meetings:
+Added: Transplantation & Cellular Therapy Meetings of the ASTCT and the CIBMTR, support Iomab-B’s value proposition
+Added: of enabling both improved access and outcomes of a BMT, thereby providing a significant curative option for r/r patients, a segment that
+Added: represents approximately 50% of all AML patients and the majority not transplanted today.
+Added: The design of the SIERRA trial is provided in
+Added: the figure below.
+Added: A Novel, Pivotal Phase 3 Study of
+Added: Iomab-B in r/r AML
+Added: The pivotal Phase 3 SIERRA trial is a 153-patient, randomized, multi-center,
+Added: controlled trial of Iomab-B in patients aged 55 and above with active r/r AML, who were heavily pre-treated and had high-risk characteristics.
+Added: Patients enrolled had blast counts of 5% or greater in the marrow or circulating blasts suggestive of active AML.
+Added: In this study, Iomab-B
+Added: was compared to the control arm that allowed physician’s choice of over 20 available agents, including chemotherapies and/or targeted
+Added: therapies such as venetoclax (BCL-2 inhibitor), FLT3 inhibitors, IDH inhibitors and Mylotarg, reflecting current best treatment practices
+Added: attempting to get patients to CR.
+Added: The control arm included recently approved AML therapies that were added to the SIERRA protocol as they
+Added: became available.
+Added: The crossover arm was designed in SIERRA for an equipoise that offered Iomab-B to patients failing to achieve a CR on
+Added: the control arm with an intent to rescue them by taking them to transplant.
+Added: Of note, SIERRA had highly restrictive optionality for post-transplant
+Added: Patients with active, r/r AML are not considered eligible for BMT with current approaches and the SIERRA trial was the only
+Added: randomized Phase 3 trial to offer BMT as a treatment option for this patient population.
+Added: These patients would not be offered BMT in standard
+Added: practice and therefore have dismal survival outcomes of two to three months.
+Added: The primary endpoint of the SIERRA trial was dCR of 180 days
+Added: and the secondary endpoints are OS and Event-Free Survival (“EFS”).
+Added: The comparison of OS in subjects randomized to the control
+Added: arm who crossed over to receive Iomab-B versus all others in the control group was an exploratory efficacy endpoint.
+Added: As seen in the graphic below, the primary endpoint of 6-month dCR was
+Added: met with a high degree of statistical significance (p<0.0001).
+Added: 75% of patients (44/59) receiving Iomab-B achieved an initial remission
+Added: 30 days after their BMT compared to 6.3% of patients (4/64) in the control arm.
+Added: 22% of the patients receiving Iomab-B maintained dCR lasting
+Added: 180 days or more despite limited optionality for post-transplant maintenance, while none of the patients on the control arm achieved dCR.
+Added: The current standard practice is to administer post-transplant maintenance therapy to reduce chances of relapse.
+Added: The results presented
+Added: below are on a per protocol basis, which means that only data that was in strict adherence to the protocol without any deviations was
+Added: considered for the analysis.
+Added: It is important to note that the p-value of the primary endpoint in the intent-to-treat analysis was <0.0001,
+Added: the same as the per protocol analysis.
+Added: SIERRA Results:
+Added: Iomab-B Meets Primary Endpoint
+Added: with High Significance (p<0.0001)
+Added: As demonstrated in the OS graph below, patients who achieved 6-month
+Added: dCR had 92.3% 1-year survival and 59.9% 2-year survival.
+Added: Median OS had not been reached in these patients.
+Added: It is worth noting that two
+Added: years in CR is a significant milestone in this patient population, highly indicative of long-term survival and a possible curative outcome.
+Added: Overall Survival for Patients who Achieved
+Added: 6-month dCR with Iomab-B
+Added: OS was one of the secondary endpoints of the
+Added: The Kaplan-Meier plot in the inset of the graph below shows Intent-to-Treat (“ITT”) OS results between the Iomab-B
+Added: arm and the control arm.
+Added: Due to the crossover design, ITT analysis of OS was confounded by the early crossover of patients (within 28
+Added: days) from the control arm to the Iomab-B arm (57.1%).
+Added: The effective rescue of these crossover patients by Iomab-B led to an outsized
+Added: contribution of the Iomab-B effect on control arm patients.
+Added: As a result, median OS in the Iomab-B arm was similar to that in the control
+Added: arm and this secondary endpoint was not met in the ITT analysis.
+Added: In order to isolate the true impact of Iomab-B
+Added: on OS, one of the exploratory efficacy endpoints was the comparison of OS in subjects randomized to the control arm who crossed over to
+Added: receive Iomab-B versus all others in the control arm, as well as the control arm patients who did not crossover versus the Iomab-B arm.
+Added: The Kaplan-Meier plot of OS in the graphic below shows that this exploratory analysis demonstrated the clear benefit of Iomab-B over the
+Added: The median OS for the Iomab-B group was 6.4 months which was double the 3.2 months for the non-crossover patients in the
+Added: Patients who crossed over from the control arm to receive Iomab-B had a median OS of 7.1 months demonstrating further the
+Added: ability of Iomab-B to treat patients who are non-treatable by conventional means.
+Added: A similar pattern favoring the Iomab-B group was seen across the pre-defined
+Added: subgroups, where 1-year OS for Iomab-B was 26.1% compared with 13.1% for the non-crossover control arm.
+Added: The 1-year OS for patients in
+Added: the crossover arm was 35.8%.
+Added: This clearly demonstrates the OS benefit of Iomab-B over the control arm and two to three-fold improvement
+Added: in survival outcomes possible with its use.
+Added: Kaplan-Meier Plot of Overall Survival ‒
+Added: Iomab-B, Crossover, and Non-Crossover Control Arm
+Added: Iomab-B produced a significant and clinically meaningful improvement
+Added: in the secondary endpoint of EFS, with a 78% reduction in the probability of an event (Hazard Ratio=0.22, p<0.0001 for both per protocol
+Added: and ITT basis).
+Added: EFS at 180 days for the Iomab-B arm was 28% compared to 0.2% for the control arm.
+Added: In the SIERRA trial, an event is defined
+Added: as one of the following:
+Added: a patient not achieving CR/CRp or crossing over, patient not receiving BMT, a patient relapsing or death.
+Added: In the figure below comparing EFS with Iomab-B
+Added: versus the control arm, the initial vertical drop in the curve in the Iomab-B arm represents those patients who did not achieve a remission
+Added: after Iomab-B or those who did not proceed to transplant, while the initial vertical drop in the curve in the control arm mainly represents
+Added: patients who did not achieve a remission with salvage therapy and either crossed over to Iomab-B or went onto best supportive care.
+Added: Event-Free Survival with Iomab-B Versus Control
+Added: The table below shows relevant adverse events
+Added: in transplanted Iomab-B patients.
+Added: In these patients, incidence of sepsis was four times lower in the Iomab-B arm than the control arm
+Added: In addition, rates of other treatment related adverse events were lower in favor of Iomab-B, including febrile neutropenia
+Added: 50.0%), mucositis (15.2% vs.
+Added: 21.4%) and acute graft versus host disease (“GVHD”) (26.1% vs.
+Added: Grade ≥3 Treatment-Emergent Adverse Events
+Added: in Transplanted Patients Through Day 100 Post-HCT
+Added: With current treatment practice, patients who have r/r AML with active
+Added: disease, utilizing current conditioning agents have poor outcomes and very low survival rates.
+Added: Using an Iomab-B led regimen, an unprecedented
+Added: number of patients were able to access transplant and were able to do so with active disease, eliminating need for achieving a CR in order
+Added: to transplant the patient.
+Added: Thus, patients are also able to access BMT faster with Iomab-B, in less than half the time compared to conventional
+Added: Iomab-B represents an exciting new paradigm with the potential to establish a new standard of care in r/r AML setting, making it
+Added: possible for most patients to get to a successful transplant with Iomab-B with a portion of these patients having a long-term survival
+Added: As shown below, with an Iomab-B led regimen, the majority of patients who are non-transplantable in routine clinical practice
+Added: can be successfully transplanted, administering myeloablative radiation with reduced intensity conditioning tolerability to ultimately
+Added: achieve transformative survival outcome, changing the treatment paradigm for r/r AML patients.
+Added: Iomab-B – New Paradigm to Upend BMT
+Added: Access and Improve r/r AML Outcomes
+Added: Future Development and Life Cycle Management
+Added: The results of the Pivotal Phase 3 SIERRA trial
+Added: validate the value proposition of Iomab-B, and we believe it could establish unprecedented access to transplant (currently the only curative
+Added: option) with better safety and tolerability and improved outcomes, all of which could potentially make Iomab-B the new standard of care
+Added: for patients with r/r AML.
+Added: We are actively working to launch an EAP and successfully file a BLA in the second half of 2023, and if approved,
+Added: we anticipate the commercial launch for Iomab-B in 2024.
+Added: We intend to commercialize Iomab-B in the U.S.
+Added: The commercial opportunity is supported by favorable dynamics, summarized by the “Three Ps and Two Cs”:
+Added: With its promising profile,
+Added: Iomab-B provides the opportunity for unprecedented BMT access and better outcomes for patients, with favorable safety and tolerability
+Added: ● Physicians :
+Added: Our goal is to help physicians
+Added: make BMT an option for a vast majority of r/r AML patients who currently are unable to access transplant without disruption to current
+Added: Patients are able to return to their referring physicians for post-BMT follow-up, long-term care
+Added: Iomab-B potentially unlocks value
+Added: through getting patients safely to effective, potentially curative transplants, with improved outcomes and a manageable safety and tolerability
+Added: ● Competition :
+Added: While there have been multiple
+Added: new product approvals in AML over the last several years, they primarily focus on addressing genetic mutations, with limited competition
+Added: in conditioning to increase access to BMT.
+Added: We do not see direct or indirect visible competition for Iomab-B in the 5-to-10-year horizon
+Added: to impair the commercial success of Iomab-B
+Added: ● Concentrated Call Points :
+Added: The commercialization
+Added: for Iomab-B will benefit from a concentrated market.
+Added: The top 50 centers perform 75% of BMTs and tend to be concentrated in metropolitan
+Added: These factors allow for commercialization delivered by a focused 35–50-person commercial organization.
+Added: The favorable commercial dynamics for Iomab-B in the U.S.
+Added: supported by the strong foundation of core competencies developed during the successful execution of the SIERRA trial at leading high-volume
+Added: We established and actively managed end-to-end supply chain, never missing a patient dose, and were able to treat 60% more
+Added: patients than expected due to the high number of crossover patients.
+Added: We focused on operational excellence at the point of care, working
+Added: in partnership with leading Key Opinion Leaders and their teams to successfully execute SIERRA at a wide array of centers.
+Added: we have broad reach across leading BMT centers that account for 30% of BMT volume, which speaks to the concentration of the BMT market.
+Added: The positive SIERRA results of unprecedented access and outcomes along with our commitment to operational excellence provide a strong
+Added: foundation for our commercial team.
+Added: In April 2022, Actinium licensed the EUMENA commercial
+Added: rights for Iomab-B to Immedica, an independent pharmaceutical company headquartered in Sweden.
+Added: Immedica has significant know-how and experience
+Added: in commercializing niche and specialty care products across Europe and the Middle East, with extensive regulatory and commercial expertise
+Added: and capabilities.
+Added: Actinium will continue to be responsible for certain clinical development activities and Iomab-B manufacturing and will
+Added: retain commercialization rights in the U.S.
+Added: and rest of the world.
+Added: Currently, there an estimated ~7,200 BMTs for AML in EUMENA, two times
+Added: that of the U.S., performed in a concentrated of number of centers.
+Added: The incidence rate of AML in Europe is 3.7 per 100,000, or ~27,500
+Added: new patients per year.
+Added: Actinium received an upfront payment of $35 million USD with the potential for an additional $417 million USD in
+Added: regulatory and sales milestones and mid-twenty percent royalties.
+Added: Iomab-B has been granted Orphan Drug Designation by the EMA and has
+Added: received positive Scientific Advice from EMA that the SIERRA trial can support a marketing authorization with filing expected in 2024.
+Added: Background on Iomab-B
+Added: Iomab-B is a first in class targeted radiotherapy consisting of apamistamab,
+Added: an anti-CD45 mouse antibody conjugated to radioactive iodine 131 (“I-131”) designed to deliver targeted myeloablative radiation
+Added: to malignant and hematopoietic cells prior to allogeneic BMT.
+Added: CD45 is uniquely expressed on blood cancer, immune and bone marrow stem
+Added: cells at high levels.
+Added: Targeting CD45 enables delivery of high radiation doses directly to the bone marrow, with a median of 16 gray and
+Added: as high as 44.6 gray in the SIERRA trial, while minimizing radiation exposure to vital organs such as lungs, heart and gastrointestinal
+Added: tract, thereby producing myeloablative outcomes with an overall better safety profile and the tolerability of a reduced intensity regimen.
+Added: I-131 is a beta- and gamma-emitting radioisotope that works on the cell surface and does not need to be internalized.
+Added: Developed at the
+Added: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (“FHCRC”), Iomab-B has been studied in multiple disease indications including leukemias,
+Added: lymphomas, MDS, and MM.
+Added: Over 300 patients received Iomab-B through prior studies, demonstrating the potential for unprecedented access
+Added: to BMT, improved survival and tolerability, and we intend to leverage these data as we plan for label expansion of Iomab-B.
+Added: been granted Orphan Drug Designation from the U.S.
+Added: Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) and has patent protection into 2037.
+Added: Actimab-A – CD33 targeting radiotherapeutic
+Added: – mutation agnostic mechanism of action has potential as combination backbone therapy in highly radiosensitive, mutation rich AML
+Added: Our Actimab-A ( 225 Ac-lintuzumab
+Added: satetraxetan) program is focused on developing combinations with other AML treatment regimens with mechanistic synergies to establish
+Added: Actimab-A as a backbone therapy, leveraging the mutation-agnostic mechanism of action of Actimab-A.
+Added: There is no known resistance mechanism
+Added: to targeted radiotherapies, making Actimab-A an attractive candidate for a variety of combinations.
+Added: The scientific rational is to use
+Added: CLAG-M, a powerful chemotherapy regimen routinely used to treat patients with r/r AML, and then use Actimab-A for its precision targeting
+Added: ability that produces double-strand-DNA breaks that lead to cancer cell death to clear out residual disease.
+Added: Actimab-A has demonstrated
+Added: clinically significant survival benefit in a proof-of-concept study and is poised for advanced development in collaboration with the NCI.
+Added: Actimab-A + CLAG-M Phase 1 Study Results
+Added: In collaboration with the Medical College of Wisconsin, the Actimab-A
+Added: + CLAG-M Phase 1 trial was conducted in r/r AML patients.
+Added: These patients had a median age of 63, failed two or more lines of therapy,
+Added: which includes 57% having received prior treatment with venetoclax, a BCL-2 inhibitor.
+Added: 67% of these patients had adverse cytogenetics,
+Added: 52% had a TP53 mutation, and 57% had a prior BMT.
+Added: Median OS is typically two to four months for this patient population, with a median
+Added: OS of less than 3 months for patients who relapsed following venetoclax and a median OS less than 2 months for those with a TP53 mutation.
+Added: These trial results were presented as an oral
+Added: presentation at the ASH Annual Meeting on December 10, 2022.
+Added: In this difficult-to-treat r/r AML population, the results demonstrate its
+Added: high potential.
+Added: We reported 1-year survival of 53% and 2-year survival of 32%, which are as much as double what can be expected with currently
+Added: available therapies.
+Added: The trial showed an Overall Response Rate (“ORR”) of 65% across all dose cohorts, 52% complete remission
+Added: rate, and a 75% MRD negativity rate.
+Added: As highlighted in the figure below, the results are highly encouraging and show that the high rates
+Added: of responses and MRD negativity are translating to a meaningful survival benefit in these difficult-to-treat patients, who would otherwise
+Added: have dismal outcomes.
+Added: Actimab-A + CLAG-M – Impressive Response
+Added: and Survival Benefit in r/r AML
+Added: Actimab-A + CLAG-M Compared to CLAG-M Alone
+Added: Efficacy of CLAG-M has been reported in older studies (Halpern
+Added: CLAG-M with dose-escalated mitoxantrone for adults with acute myeloid leukemia.
+Added: Oncotarget 2018 and Mushtaq et al.
+Added: of Salvage Chemotherapy Regimens in Relapsed/Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
+Added: ASH 2018) in patients with r/r AML, however, almost all
+Added: of these studies were conducted in the pre-targeted therapy era where no patients enrolled had prior venetoclax-based therapy, thus efficacy
+Added: data of CLAG-M in the current era, in patients exposed to prior venetoclax, or with other high-risk features, is limited.
+Added: When combined
+Added: with Actimab-A, the combination has demonstrated a clinically significant survival benefit in a proof-of-concept study irrespective of
+Added: prior targeted treatment.
+Added: Relapsed or refractory AML after failing venetoclax-based therapy is associated with dismal survival outcomes,
+Added: with a median OS of less than 3 months.
+Added: In comparison, the combination trial of Actimab-A + CLAG-M led to 1-year survival of 59% and 2-year
+Added: survival of 32% in patients who failed prior venetoclax-based therapy, which compares very favorably to the traditional outcomes in these
+Added: Actimab-A + venetoclax Phase 1/2 Study Results
+Added: We are conducting a Phase 1/2 multi-center trial combining Actimab-A
+Added: + venetoclax in both fit and unfit patients 18 years and older with r/r AML led by UCLA Medical Center.
+Added: On December 10, 2022, data from
+Added: our Actimab-A + venetoclax combination trial was presented at the ASH Annual Meeting.
+Added: We have demonstrated preclinically that combinations
+Added: of Actimab-A and venetoclax have mechanistic synergies.
+Added: Overexpression of MCL-1, an anti-apoptotic protein, is associated with resistance
+Added: to venetoclax in AML.
+Added: Actimab-A kills tumors cells with DNA double-strand breaks and downregulates MCL-1, which can (re-)sensitize AML
+Added: cells or reduce tumor resistance to venetoclax.
+Added: The Actimab-A + venetoclax combination has been well-tolerated with responses, including
+Added: a CR and a partial response in early dose escalation cohorts.
+Added: In our ongoing clinical trial, we are exploring the optimal dose of Actimab-A,
+Added: as well as the dosing regimen of the combination.
+Added: We expect to present proof-of-concept of this study in the second half of 2023.
+Added: Advanced Development and Planning for Actimab-A
+Added: On February 6, 2023, we announced that we entered
+Added: into a CRADA with the NCI, part of the NIH, to develop Actimab-A for the treatment of patients with AML and other hematologic malignancies.
+Added: The NCI will serve as the regulatory sponsor for any clinical trials mutually approved by both parties to study Actimab-A, and the CRADA
+Added: will provide extensive support for and accelerate the development of Actimab-A alone or in combination with chemotherapy, immunotherapy,
+Added: targeted agents and other novel combinations.
+Added: The CRADA studies will be overseen by the NCI in collaboration with Actinium’s clinical
+Added: development team, where Actinium has the right to review and approval all protocols and has full right to all data.
+Added: This broad collaboration
+Added: may accelerate our Actimab-A development efforts with access to NCI’s vast network of over 2,000 clinical trial sites and its Myelomatch
+Added: Later this year, we will provide updates on our progress as we move into late-stage development with Actimab-A + CLAG-M, as well
+Added: as other developments with our venetoclax combination trial as part of our backbone development strategy.
+Added: Background on Actimab-A
+Added: Actimab-A is an anti-CD33 antibody linked to the potent alpha-emitting
+Added: radioisotope Ac-225.
+Added: Actimab-A targets CD33, which is expressed in virtually all malignant cells in patients with AML regardless of cytogenetics
+Added: or mutations and enables potent alpha radiation to be directed against radiosensitive AML cells.
+Added: These cells have no known resistance
+Added: or repair mechanisms when hit with the alpha particles from the Ac-225 isotope payload that cause double stranded DNA breaks.
+Added: Actimab-A is the first radiotherapeutic for r/r AML and has the unique value proposition of broad applicability, a differentiated mechanism
+Added: of action, and targeted precision that is well-tolerated with minimal toxicity.
+Added: Our CD33 development program is driven by data obtained
+Added: from approximately 150 AML patients in 6 trials and demonstrated single agent activity with high response rates, but was also associated
+Added: with prolonged neutropenia.
+Added: A combination strategy was considered appropriate given the changing treatment landscape of AML;
+Added: on presumed mechanistic synergies, an investigator initiated trial of Actimab-A + CLAG-M and a company-sponsored Actimab-A + venetoclax
+Added: were developed and patients were enrolled into these studies.
+Added: Conditioning Focused Programs
+Added: We will further expand the Iomab-B franchise by focusing on lifecycle
+Added: management for label enhancement and indication expansion.
+Added: Iomab-B data in five additional hematologic indications (i.e., MDS, ALL, HL,
+Added: NHL, and MM) provide the foundation to explore indication expansion opportunities to increase the total addressable market for Iomab-B.
+Added: Across early trials at the FHCRC, Iomab-B demonstrated similar improved access to BMT and outcomes.
+Added: We will leverage these data with strong
+Added: results from the pivotal Phase 3 SIERRA trial to execute a comprehensive life cycle management strategy to further expand Iomab-B’s
+Added: role in a variety of malignant and non-malignant hematological disorders, We will continue to develop the Iomab-B franchise to potentially
+Added: address a broader market opportunity to address the over 165,000 patients diagnosed with cancers (e.g., leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma),
+Added: who could potentially benefit from transplant, but are unable to access one today.
+Added: Iomab-ACT is comprised of apamistamab, the same anti-CD45 antibody
+Added: as Iomab-B, but utilizes lower, nonmyeloablative levels of I-131 to achieve lymphodepletion for cellular therapies such as CAR-T or reduced
+Added: intensity conditioning for gene therapies.
+Added: We intend to continue to develop the Iomab-ACT program designed specifically for use prior
+Added: to CAR-T and gene therapies, ultimately with a value proposition of improving overall access and outcomes for patients who need cellular
+Added: or gene therapies.
+Added: Preclinical data showed a single, low-dose of
+Added: Iomab-ACT demonstrated lymphodepletion and as CD45 positive immune cells are implicated in major CAR-T side effects, i.e., cytokine release
+Added: syndrome ("CRS") and immune effector cell–associated neurotoxicity syndrome (“ICANS"), Iomab-ACT has the potential
+Added: to be developed as a conditioning agent for CAR-T therapies.
+Added: CRS and ICANS remain two most common toxicities of CAR-T therapies with severe
+Added: cases (>Grade 3) seen in >20% of patients and fatality rates between 0-10%.
+Added: Due to its effect on host monocytes/macrophages, we
+Added: believe conditioning with Iomab-ACT will potentially reduce the incidence of CRS and ICANS.
+Added: Unlike chemotherapy, Iomab-ACT is targeted in
+Added: nature, and we expect it to potentially promote improved CAR-T cell expansion, resulting in responses that are higher and more durable.
+Added: We believe our Iomab-ACT program is highly differentiated when compared to fludarabine and cyclophosphamide (“Flu/Cy”) or
+Added: other chemotherapy-based regimens that are used as standard practice today for lymphodepletion prior to cell therapy.
+Added: We are studying Iomab-ACT in collaboration with MSKCC, for conditioning
+Added: prior to CAR-T therapy for patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (“B-ALL”) or diffuse large
+Added: B-cell lymphoma (“DLBCL”).
+Added: This study funded by a NIH grant is the first-of-its-kind study to use a radiotherapeutic-based
+Added: conditioning regimen with CAR-T therapy.
+Added: We have completed treatment of an initial cohort of three patients and will expand to a second
+Added: This study was presented at the ASH Annual Meeting in December 2022 as a trial-in-progress.
+Added: We expect to present proof-of-concept
+Added: data from this study in 2023 and look forward to sharing more on our Iomab-ACT trial with MSKCC, along with future development plans in
+Added: the CAR-T space.
+Added: R&D and Preclinical Programs
+Added: Our R&D efforts yield differentiated, high-value
+Added: programs that demonstrate our experience across multiple validated cancer targets and isotopes and cover broad areas of focus leveraging
+Added: our clinical development experience across hematology, targeted conditioning, solid tumors, and next generation radiotherapies.
+Added: also inform the advancement of our Iomab-B, Actimab-A, and Iomab-ACT programs.
+Added: Our research collaborations with Astellas, LG Chem, formerly
+Added: AVEO Oncology, and EpicentRx establish our work with immunotherapies and in solid tumors.
+Added: We are working on several preclinical programs
+Added: which include novel approaches to established targets such as HER2 and HER3, as well as novel targets that show immense potential for
+Added: radiotherapeutic approaches.
+Added: Underpinning our development programs is our expanded patent portfolio of over 200 issued patents and pending
+Added: patent applications worldwide.
+Added: We have utilized our technology platform to develop our clinical portfolio
+Added: in hematology – Iomab-B and Actimab-A, in conditioning for transplant and as a therapeutic, respectively.
+Added: In addition, our robust
+Added: platform been used to develop a pipeline of novel radiotherapeutic assets to drive company growth.
+Added: Preclinical pharmacology studies with
+Added: our targeted radiotherapeutics such as HER3-ARC, HER2-ARC or CD33-ARC have shown dramatic improvement in tumor growth inhibition in various
+Added: preclinical tumor models as single agents or in combination with immunotherapy such as magrolimab, an anti-CD47 monoclonal antibody.
+Added: results have prompted the team to spearhead efforts in multiple solid tumor programs.
+Added: Actinium’s lead solid tumor program is a targeted radiotherapy
+Added: against HER3, a pan-cancer target that is overexpressed in several solid tumor indications with high unmet need.
+Added: In April 2022, we presented
+Added: the first HER3-targeted radiotherapeutic agent at the American Association for Cancer Research (“AACR”) Annual Meeting showing
+Added: potent tumor cell cytotoxicity, enhanced antitumor effects and significantly improved survival with an Ac-225 radiolabeled HER3 antibody
+Added: compared to a naked HER3 antibody in a preclinical non-small cell lung cancer (“NSCLC”) model.
+Added: We have also demonstrated the
+Added: direct impact of targeted radiotherapy in modulating immune signals such as calreticulin upregulation to enhance tumor cell killing.
+Added: we have leveraged the immunomodulatory effect(s) of targeted radiotherapy in combination with CD47 targeting agents such as magrolimab
+Added: for sustained tumor growth inhibition in mouse models of AML and NSCLC.
+Added: These results were presented at the Society for Immunotherapy
+Added: of Cancer (“SITC”) Annual Meeting held in 2021.
+Added: Our R&D team continues to expand on capabilities
+Added: and technologies across therapeutic modalities, linker technologies and in vivo cancer models, and build significant visibility through
+Added: presentations at key conferences and publications in journals of high impact.
+Added: Our R&D efforts are centered on the advancement of our
+Added: key programs with a robust “fast-to-clinic” approach in niche indications and are backed by an extensive IP estate that comprises
+Added: over 200 patents and patent applications including the methods of Ac-225 production.
+Added: Our Platform Technology
+Added: Our proprietary technology platform is built on
+Added: the core competency to produce targeted radiotherapeutics, and coupled with our know-how and IP, establishes our company in the development
+Added: of isotope-agnostic, multi-targeted products that may address the treatment of hard-to-treat diseases.
+Added: In our clinical and preclinical
+Added: programs, we have utilized multiple isotopes including Ac-225, I-131 and Lutetium-177 directed at multiple targets in oncology and hematology
+Added: such as CD45, CD33, HER3, among others.
+Added: Our targeted radiotherapies combine the cell-killing ability of radiation via a radioisotope payload
+Added: with a targeting agent, such as a monoclonal antibody.
+Added: In addition to developing targeted radiotherapies, we also own patents
+Added: related to the manufacturing of Ac-225 in a cyclotron.
+Added: We have expertise in utilizing the alpha emitting isotope Ac-225 including clinical
+Added: experience in treating approximately 150 patients with our alpha-emitter-based therapies, “gold standard” linker technology
+Added: and five issued patents in the U.S.
+Added: and 49 patents internationally related to the manufacturing or Ac-225 in a cyclotron, which we believe
+Added: has the potential to produce higher quantities of highly pure Ac-225 than current methods.
+Added: When appropriate, we are well-positioned to
+Added: leverage this technology to produce Ac-225.
Intellectual Property
−Removed: We have developed or in-licensed
−Removed: numerous patents and patent applications and possess substantial know-how and trade secrets related to the development and manufacture
−Removed: of our products.
−Removed: As of March 2022, our patent portfolio includes 39 patent families comprised of 174 issued patents and pending patent
−Removed: applications, of which 8 are issued and 30 are pending in the United States, and 135 are issued or pending internationally.
−Removed: Several non-provisional
−Removed: patent applications are expected to be filed in 2022 based on provisional patent applications filed in 2021.
−Removed: More than 90% of our patents
−Removed: are Actinium-owned and the remainder are in-licensed from third parties.
−Removed: These patents cover key areas of our business, including the
−Removed: use of actinium-225 and other alpha- or beta-emitting isotopes attached to cancer targeting carriers like monoclonal antibodies in the
−Removed: treatment of cancers and non-malignant medical disorders, methods for manufacturing key components of our product candidates including
−Removed: actinium-225, an alpha particle emitting radioisotope and carrier antibodies, or Iodine-131, a beta particle emitting radioisotope, and
−Removed: methods for manufacturing finished product candidates for use in cancer treatment.
−Removed: We own two issued patents
−Removed: in the United States and issued patents in Europe and Japan that relate to the composition of our Iomab-B product candidate.
−Removed: patent terms of these patents expire in 2036 and 2037.
−Removed: Four related patent applications are also currently pending in the U.S.
+Added: Our proprietary technology platform is supported
+Added: by IP, know-how and trade secrets that cover the generation, development, methods of use and manufacture of targeted radiotherapies and
+Added: their select components.
+Added: Our IP covers various methods of use in multiple diseases, including indication, dose and scheduling, radionuclide
+Added: warhead, and therapeutic combinations.
+Added: As of March 2023, we have expanded our patent
+Added: portfolio to over 200 issued patents and pending patent applications worldwide, which we believe constitutes a valuable business asset.
+Added: Our IP includes 45 patent families, including key patents that relate primarily to our radiotherapeutic candidates.
+Added: Our patent portfolio
+Added: includes 12 issued patents and 39 pending patent applications in the U.S., and 151 that are issued or pending internationally.
+Added: The effective
+Added: lives of the issued patents in our portfolio, or patents that may issue from the pending applications in our portfolio, ranges from expirations
+Added: between 2024 and 2043.
+Added: For our Iomab-B product candidate, we have four
+Added: issued patents in the U.S.
+Added: and issued patents in Canada, Europe and Japan that relate to the composition.
+Added: The basic patent terms of these
+Added: patents expire in 2036 and 2037.
+Added: Related patent applications are also currently pending in the U.S.
and internationally.
−Removed: In addition, we own both U.S.
−Removed: and international pending patent applications that relate to the use of Iomab-B or Iomab-ACT in the treatment
−Removed: of cancers and non-malignant conditions.
−Removed: We also own five issued patents in the United States and 49 patents outside the United States
−Removed: that relate to the manufacturing of actinium-225, the radionuclide used in our Actimab-A product candidate, in a cyclotron.
+Added: we own both U.S.
+Added: and international pending patent applications that relate to the use of Iomab-B or Iomab-ACT in the treatment of cancers
+Added: and non-malignant conditions.
+Added: Our patents also cover key areas of our business
+Added: such as manufacturing key components of our product candidate, Actimab-A, including Ac-225 in a cyclotron.
+Added: We have expertise in utilizing
+Added: the alpha emitting isotope Ac-225 including clinical experience in treating approximately 150 patients with our alpha-emitter-based therapies,
+Added: “gold standard” linker technology and five issued patents in the U.S.
+Added: and 49 patents internationally related to the manufacturing
+Added: or Ac-225 in a cyclotron, which we believe has the potential to produce higher quantities of Ac-225 than currently utilized methods.
patents will expire in the years 2024 through 2027.
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that relate to the manufacturing of Actimab-A and its use in the treatment of cancers.
−Removed: Regulatory Protections
−Removed: The indications for which we
−Removed: are developing our product candidates for are orphan drug designations, which are disease indications that affect fewer than 200,000 patients
−Removed: in the United States and less than 5 in 10,000 patients in the EU.
−Removed: We have received orphan drug designation for Iomab-B and Actimab-A
−Removed: for patients with AML in both the United States and the EU.
−Removed: As a result, if our products are to be approved, they may receive 7 years
−Removed: and 10 years of market exclusivity in the United States and EU, respectively.
−Removed: In addition, our product candidates are biologics combined
−Removed: with radioisotopes.
−Removed: We believe that the nature of radioisotopes having half-lives combined with the complexities of biologic drugs would
−Removed: make it difficult for a manufacturer to demonstrate bioequivalence to our product candidates.
−Removed: The Hatch-Waxman Act requires that a manufacturer
−Removed: of generic drugs, for which a biologic drug is called a biosimilar, demonstrate bioequivalence to the innovator.
−Removed: However, we are not aware
−Removed: of any existing or pending regulations or legislation that pertains to generic radiopharmaceutical products such as our antibody radiation-conjugate
−Removed: product candidates
−Removed: The biopharmaceutical industry
−Removed: in which we operate, specifically, the field of oncology drug development is rapidly evolving and highly competitive.
−Removed: Radiopharmaceuticals
−Removed: for the treatment of cancer has received considerable interest from major and specialty pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies,
−Removed: academic research institutions and other public and private entities, particularly in recent years.
−Removed: For the targeted radiotherapies
−Removed: we are developing, we face competition from biopharmaceuticals companies who are developing alpha particle-based therapies utilizing Actinium-225,
−Removed: Radium-223 and Thorium-227.
−Removed: Companies developing targeted alpha therapies include Bayer AG, who owns Xofigo, the only approved alpha therapy,
−Removed: that is used in the treatment of metastatic prostate cancer, Novartis AG, Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited, Point Biopharma, Inc., Fusion
−Removed: Pharmaceuticals, Inc., RayzeBio, Inc., Aktis Oncology, Curie Therapeutics, RadioMedix, Inc.
−Removed: and Orano Med.
−Removed: Significant attention and resources
−Removed: is being applied to Ac-225 based therapies given its high linear energy and short path length.
−Removed: Fusion Pharmaceuticals is studying FPI-1434,
−Removed: targeting IFG-1R with Ac-225 in a Phase 1 trial in solid tumors and has recently initiated a Phase 1 study to test FGFR3 targeting agent
−Removed: in development.
−Removed: Point Biopharma is studying PNT2002, a PSMA targeting agent for metastatic prostate cancer in a Phase 1 trial, PNT2004,
−Removed: a preclinical agent targeting solid tumors expressing FAP, and PNT2001, a preclinical agent also targeting PSMA in prostate cancer, which
−Removed: all utilize Ac-225.
−Removed: Novartis is also developing a PSMA targeting agent utilizing Ac-225 for prostate cancer.
−Removed: RayzeBio, Aktis Oncology
−Removed: and Curie Therapeutics are all pursuing Ac-225 based therapies but have not yet disclosed cancer targets or indications.
−Removed: To our knowledge, our Actimab-A
−Removed: product candidate is the only clinical stage Ac-225 based therapy in active development for hematologic indications.
−Removed: There are also several companies
−Removed: developing beta particle-based therapies such as Bayer, Novartis, Lantheus Holdings, Inc.
−Removed: and Q BioMed, Inc., who all own approved products.
−Removed: Beta particles used for oncology therapeutics includes Iodine-131, Lutetium-177, Strontium-89 and Yttrium-90.
−Removed: Companies developing beta
−Removed: particle-based therapies includes Cellectar Biosciences, Inc., Clovis Oncology, Inc., Y-mAbs Therapeutics, Inc., Ipsen S.A., and Novartis.
−Removed: In the field of conditioning,
−Removed: pharmaceuticals currently used for myeloablation prior to a bone marrow transplant, lymphodepletion prior to CAR-T and other adoptive
−Removed: cell therapies and conditioning for gene therapy are largely generic, non-targeted chemotherapeutic agents like fludarabine or busulfan
−Removed: and/or total body irradiation.
−Removed: In targeted conditioning,
−Removed: we face competition from companies developing agents targeting CD117 (Jasper Therapeutics and Magenta Therapeutics), CD45 (Magenta Therapeutics)
−Removed: and CD66 (Telix Pharmaceuticals).
−Removed: CD117 is expressed in normal CNS, GI, reproductive, kidney and skin tissue, which could result in on-target
−Removed: toxicity to these organs.
−Removed: CD117 is not expressed on mature circulating immune cells and thus cannot be targeted for lymphodepletion for
−Removed: adoptive cell therapy.
−Removed: Jasper Therapeutics, Inc, is developing JSP191, an anti-CD117 unconjugated monoclonal antibody that is being studied
−Removed: in a Phase 1b trial in combination with fludarabine and total body irradiation in patients with MDS and AML.
−Removed: Magenta has initiated a Phase
−Removed: 1/2 trial for its MGTA-117 CD117 ADC and will conduct this first in human dose finding study in patients with r/r AML MDS with excess
−Removed: blasts and is exploring MGTA-117 for gene therapy conditioning in preclinical studies.
−Removed: Magenta is also developing its CD45 ADC, which
−Removed: is has not yet been studied in humans and is being evaluated in IND enabling studies.
−Removed: Forty Seven, Inc.(acquired
−Removed: by Gilead) announced a conditioning regimen comprised of its anti-CD47 monoclonal antibody Magrolimab with its preclinical stage FSI-174
−Removed: anti-CD117 monoclonal antibody in a preclinical collaboration with bluebird bio, Inc.
−Removed: for conditioning prior to gene therapy.
−Removed: Molecular Templates announced
−Removed: a collaboration with Vertex focused on targeted conditioning using its Engineered Toxin Bodies (ETBs) with two targets that were not disclosed.
−Removed: In October 2021, Vertex terminated the research collaboration with Molecular Templates.
−Removed: Molecular Templates has a preclinical stage CD45
−Removed: ETB in development.
−Removed: Telix Pharmaceuticals is developing
−Removed: TLX66, a CD66 targeting antibody radio conjugated with Yttrium-90, for BMT conditioning in patients with Systemic Amyloid Light-Chain
−Removed: Amyloidosis (SALA).
−Removed: TLX66 is also being studied in a Phase 2 investigator sponsored trial in the U.K in patients with childhood leukemia.
−Removed: Allogene Therapeutics is developing
−Removed: an anti-CD52 monoclonal antibody for use as a lymphodepletion agent in conjunction with CAR-T therapies.
−Removed: CD52 is not expressed on stem
−Removed: cells and therefore cannot be used for myeloablation for a bone marrow transplant.
−Removed: To our knowledge, we are the
−Removed: only company with an anti-CD45 radio conjugate in clinical development and the only company with a targeted conditioning agent that has
−Removed: completed enrollment of a pivotal Phase 3 trial.
−Removed: Our Actimab-A product candidate
−Removed: faces competition from several major pharmaceutical companies and biotechnology companies who are also developing multiple types of therapies
−Removed: including chemotherapy, targeted agents, ADCs, monoclonal antibodies, bispecific antibodies, immunotherapies and cellular therapies for
−Removed: patients with AML.
−Removed: The standard of care for patients with AML has long been “7+3”, which is 7 days of treatment with cytarabine
−Removed: with an anthracycline on the first 3 days for patients who can tolerate intensive therapy and hypomethylating agents, azacitidine or decitabine,
−Removed: for patients who are “unfit” and cannot tolerate intensive therapy.
−Removed: Since 2017, 9 agents have been approved for patients with
−Removed: These approved agents include Vyxeos (liposomal cytarabine and daunorubicin) owned by Jazz Pharmaceuticals, venetoclax, a Bcl-2 inhibitor
−Removed: owned by Abbvie, FLT3 inhibitors midostaurin (owned by Novartis) and gilteritinib (owned by Astellas), Daurismo, a hedgehog pathway inhibitor
−Removed: owned by Pfizer, IDH inhibitors Tibsovo (IDH1) and Idhifa (IDH2) owned by Servier, Onureg (oral azacitidine) owned by Bristol Myers Squibb
−Removed: and Mylotarg, a CD33 targeting ADC owned by Pfizer.
−Removed: These agents are approved in
−Removed: various AML patient segments including secondary or treatment related AML (Vyxeos), patients over the age of 75 or patients unfit for
−Removed: intensive therapy (venetoclax and Daurismo) and patients with a specific cytogenetic mutation such as FLT3 or IDH1/2.
−Removed: Despite these 9
−Removed: approved agents, outcomes for patients with r/r AML remain dismal and it remains an area of high medical need that could accommodate many
−Removed: new products with favorable safety and efficiency profiles.
−Removed: We are pursuing CD33 because
−Removed: it is expressed in virtually all patients with AML.
−Removed: AML is known to be highly sensitive to radiation, which lends itself to our targeted
−Removed: radiotherapy approach.
−Removed: Also, AML has high cytogenetic and mutational heterogeneity, which targeted radiotherapy is agnostic to.
−Removed: therapies are commonly used in hematologic indications, but we believe we are the only clinical stage Ac-225 based product candidate that
−Removed: is being explored in hematologic indications in combination with other modalities, including with the salvage chemotherapy regimen CLAG-M
−Removed: in fit patients with relapsed or refractory AML as well as in combination with the Bcl-2 inhibitor venetoclax in fit and unfit patients
−Removed: with relapsed or refractory AML.
−Removed: In addition to developing
−Removed: targeted radiotherapies, we also own patents related to the manufacturing of Ac-225 in a cyclotron.
−Removed: Medical grade Ac-225 is largely supplied
−Removed: Department of Energy (“DOE”) derived from the natural decay of thorium-229 from so-called “thorium-cows”.
−Removed: Additional routes of Ac-225 production are being pursued by the DOE including the generation of new thorium cows and production via a
−Removed: cyclotron to increase supply.
−Removed: The DOE’s cyclotron production method for Ac-225 production leverages Actinium’s proprietary
−Removed: technology and know-how and presents an additional path towards production of high-quality Ac-225.
−Removed: Previously, we utilized our cyclotron
−Removed: production IP to create highly pure Ac-225.
−Removed: We are aware of at least six other government and non-government entities globally that have
−Removed: or expect to have ability to supply Ac-225 using various methods including ITM, Niowave, Terrapower, NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes,
−Removed: IONETIX Corporation, TRIUMF and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories that could be competitors should we elect to manufacture Ac-225 in the future.
−Removed: We believe our cyclotron method has the potential to produce robust amounts of highly pure Ac-225, which could address potential future
−Removed: Ac-225 supply constraints should multiple Ac-225 products gain regulatory approval.
+Added: Strategic Collaborations and Licensing Agreements
+Added: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
+Added: On June 15, 2012, the Company entered into a license
+Added: and sponsored research agreement with FHCRC to build upon previous and ongoing clinical trials with Iomab-B.
+Added: Developed at the FHCRC, a
+Added: pioneer in the field of BMT, Iomab-B has been studied in over 400 patients and is supported by data in six disease indications including
+Added: leukemias, lymphomas and multiple myeloma.
+Added: The Company has been granted exclusive rights to the antibody and related master cell
+Added: bank developed by FHCRC.
+Added: A milestone payment of $1 million will be due to FHCRC upon FDA approval of the first drug utilizing the licensed
+Added: Upon commercial sale of the drug, royalty payments of 2% of net sales will be due to FHCRC.
+Added: In April 2022, Actinium licensed the EUMENA commercial
+Added: rights for Iomab-B to Immedica, an independent pharmaceutical company headquartered in Sweden.
+Added: Immedica has significant know-how and experience
+Added: in commercializing niche and specialty care products across Europe and the Middle East, with extensive expertise and capabilities across
+Added: sales and marketing, market access, regulatory and medical affairs, drug safety and quality assurance, among others.
+Added: Actinium received
+Added: an upfront payment of $35 million USD with the potential for an additional $417 million USD in regulatory and sales milestones and mid-twenty
+Added: percent royalties.
+Added: The market potential is extremely compelling in the EU with approximately 50% larger with 15,000 patients with r/r
+Added: AML and double the number of BMTs performed than in the US.
+Added: Iomab-B has been granted Orphan Drug Designation by the EMA and has received
+Added: positive Scientific Advice from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (“CHMP”) of the EMA.
+Added: National Cancer Institute
+Added: In February 2023, we announced that Actinium entered
+Added: into a CRADA with the NCI, part of the NIH, to develop Actimab-A in for the treatment of patients with AML and other hematologic malignancies.
+Added: Under the terms of the CRADA, the NCI will serve as the regulatory sponsor for any clinical trials mutually approved by both parties to
+Added: study Actimab-A while Actinium will be responsible for supplying and distributing Actimab-A to participating clinical sites and providing
+Added: additional support as needed.
+Added: The CRADA will provide broad support for the development of Actimab-A alone or in combination with chemotherapy,
+Added: immunotherapy, targeted agents and other novel combinations.
+Added: The CRADA studies will be overseen by NCI in collaboration with Actinium's
+Added: clinical development team.
+Added: Astellas, LG Chem, and EpicentRx
+Added: We are leveraging our clinical experience, robust
+Added: IP and radiotherapy know-how through research collaborations.
+Added: Our collaborations with Astellas, LG Chem and EpicentRx establish our work
+Added: with immunotherapies and in solid tumors.
+Added: Through our research collaborations, such as with Astellas, we are advancing into solid tumors
+Added: With Astellas, we are utilizing a diagnostic agent developed in parallel with a therapeutic agent that shares the same target
+Added: to identify patients who would benefit from the treatment.
+Added: Our platform is being utilized in our ongoing
+Added: research collaboration with Astellas to arm select targeting agents owned by Astellas with the alpha-emitting radioisotope Ac-225 for
+Added: the development of theranostics for solid tumor indications, which combine the ability of radioisotopes to be used for both diagnostic
+Added: and therapeutic purposes.
+Added: We are also exploring novel targeted radiotherapies
+Added: in solid tumors and blood cancers such as HER3 expressing solid tumors in collaboration with LG Chem and combinations with immunotherapies
+Added: such as CD47 immune checkpoint inhibitors with EpicentRx.
+Added: The biopharmaceutical industry is extremely competitive
+Added: and rapidly evolving, particularly in the field of oncology and hematology drug development.
+Added: Our competition is likely to come from larger
+Added: pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, academia, and other public and private entities that focus on three broad areas relevant
+Added: to our pipeline candidates – AML drugs, conditioning agents and radiopharmaceuticals.
+Added: In addition, in markets where we are going
+Added: after a target, companies with research programs and capabilities in our disease area focus may also be competing with our programs and
+Added: In AML, the pipeline is crowded with 100+ programs, however, there
+Added: are a few Phase 3 assets with limited potential that do not represent an imminent, competitive threat to Iomab-B or Actimab-A.
+Added: the Phase 2 development programs in AML show the promise of producing high rates or duration of remission, and most patients that relapse
+Added: tend to have poor survival outcomes.
+Added: The Phase 2 assets primarily consist of agents targeting specific AML mutations, immunotherapies,
+Added: or cell cycle modulators.
+Added: Early clinical and preclinical stage assets consist of more cell therapy and immune cell engagers, and the potential
+Added: success of these modalities in AML remain uncertain.
+Added: Our strategy is to develop Actimab-A in combination with other products, and the
+Added: agents in the development pipeline have the potential for synergies in combination with Actimab-A.
+Added: In conditioning, agents currently used for
+Added: myeloablation prior to a BMT, lymphodepletion prior to CAR-T and other adoptive cell therapies and reduced intensity conditioning
+Added: for gene therapy are largely generic, non-targeted chemotherapeutic agents.
+Added: Recently, Jasper Therapeutics and Magenta Therapeutics
+Added: ceased development of their antibody and antibody-drug conjugate or ADC conditioning programs for BMT.
+Added: Certain companies such as Vertex
+Added: Pharmaceuticals (“Vertex”), Gilead Sciences (“Gilead”) and Allogene Therapeutics (“Allogene")
+Added: have or continue to explore non-chemotherapy conditioning with ADCs and antibodies for their in-house, proprietary cellular therapy
+Added: For example, Vertex has in-licensed ImmunoGen Inc.’s ADC technology, and had a collaboration with Molecular
+Added: Templates, Inc.
+Added: to develop targeted conditioning agents, which was subsequently terminated.
+Added: Allogene is using its own proprietary
+Added: anti-CD52 monoclonal antibody for use as a lymphodepletion agent in conjunction with CAR-T therapies.
+Added: Telix Pharmaceuticals has
+Added: announced plans for a conditioning program based on a CD66 radiotherapeutic approach in systemic amyloid light-chain amyloidosis
+Added: (“SALA”) via an early stage investigator sponsored trial.
+Added: Without exception, all these companies have either preclinical
+Added: or early-stage programs that are solely focused on their proprietary programs.
+Added: We believe that we are the only company with a phase
+Added: 3 completed targeted conditioning asset that has demonstrated clinical benefit with the opportunity to be paradigm-changing.
+Added: Several companies are focused on developing radiotherapies, including,
+Added: but not limited to:
+Added: Abdera Therapeutics, Aktis Oncology, Bayer AG, Convergent Therapeutics, CuraSight, Fusion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Lantheus
+Added: Holdings, Inc., Mariana Oncology (previously, Curie Therapeutics), Monopar Therapeutics, Novartis AG, Point Biopharma, Inc., RadioMedix,
+Added: Inc., Radiopharm Theranostics, Radionetics Oncology, RayzeBio, Inc., Q BioMed, Inc., Telix, and Y-mAbs Therapeutics, Inc.
Government Regulation
−Removed: Governmental authorities in
−Removed: the United States and other countries extensively regulate, among other things, the research, development, testing, manufacture, labeling,
−Removed: promotion, advertising, distribution and marketing of radioimmunotherapy pharmaceutical products such as those being developed by us.
−Removed: In the United States, the FDA regulates such products under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (“FDCA”) and implements
−Removed: Failure to comply with applicable FDA requirements, both before and after approval, may subject us to administrative and
−Removed: judicial sanctions, such as a delay in approving or refusal by the FDA to approve pending applications, warning letters, product recalls,
−Removed: product seizures, total or partial suspension of production or distribution, injunctions and/or criminal prosecution.
−Removed: Food and Drug Administration Regulation
−Removed: Our research, development
−Removed: and clinical programs, as well as our manufacturing and marketing operations, are subject to extensive regulation in the United States
−Removed: and other countries.
−Removed: Most notably, products that may in the future be sold in the United States are subject to regulation by the FDA.
−Removed: Certain of our product candidates in the United States will require FDA approval of a BLA prior to marketing.
−Removed: Foreign countries may require
−Removed: similar or more onerous approvals to manufacture or market these products.
−Removed: FDA Approval Process for Biologics License
−Removed: Prior to testing a biological
−Removed: product on humans, the product must clear the preclinical testing stage.
−Removed: The goal of preclinical testing is to perform laboratory evaluations
−Removed: of the product’s chemistry and formulation as well as evaluate the product’s potential for adverse events by performing in
−Removed: vitro and animal studies.
−Removed: This information is packaged together and submitted to the FDA as part of an investigational new drug (“IND”)
−Removed: application, which must be approved by the FDA before administering the product to human subjects in clinical trials.
−Removed: From there, the product moves
−Removed: to the clinical stage, where it is administered to healthy volunteers or patients.
−Removed: The data gathered from the preclinical testing and
−Removed: clinical trials is used to support the BLA submission.
−Removed: The FDA must approve the BLA prior to commercial marketing of a biological product.
−Removed: The BLA must include information about product development, laboratory and animal studies, human trials, manufacturing information, the
−Removed: composition of the product, and proposed labeling.
−Removed: The approval process requires significant time and financial resources and does not
−Removed: guarantee that FDA will accept the BLA filing or ultimately approve the BLA.
−Removed: The Prescription Drug User
−Removed: Fee Act, as amended (“PDUFA”), requires each BLA to be accompanied by a substantial user fee.
−Removed: The amount of the user fee changes
−Removed: on an annual basis.
−Removed: In addition to the BLA user fee, PDUFA also imposes an annual program fee for biological products.
−Removed: The FDA will waive
−Removed: or reduce the fee under limited circumstances, such as for first applications filed by small businesses.
−Removed: Within 60 days following submission
−Removed: of the BLA, the FDA reviews the BLA submission for completion to determine if it will accept it for filing.
−Removed: The FDA may refuse to file
−Removed: the BLA if it deems the submission incomplete or not properly reviewable at the time of submission.
−Removed: For the BLA review process to proceed,
−Removed: the BLA must be resubmitted with the necessary additional information.
−Removed: After the BLA is accepted for filing, the FDA commences its substantive
−Removed: review of the BLA.
−Removed: The FDA reviews the BLA to determine, among other things, whether the proposed product is safe, potent, and/or effective
−Removed: for its intended use, has an acceptable purity profile, and whether the product’s manufacturing is consistent with current Good
−Removed: Manufacturing Processes (“cGMPs”) to ensure that the product meets the appropriate standards for identity, safety, strength,
+Added: Regulatory Compliance
+Added: Our research and development activities are all
+Added: subject to stringent regulation, primarily by the FDA in the U.S.
+Added: under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the “FDCA”)
+Added: and its implementing regulations, and the Public Health Service Act (“PHSA”) and its implementing regulations, and by comparable
+Added: authorities under similar laws and regulations in other countries.
+Added: This includes research and development, testing, and oversight of suppliers
+Added: and contract manufacturers involved in the production of our product candidates we are developing, as well as the design, manufacturing,
+Added: safety, efficacy, handling, labeling, storage, record-keeping, advertising, promotion and marketing.
+Added: If, for any reason, we do not comply
+Added: with applicable requirements, such noncompliance can result in adverse consequences, including delays in approval of, or even the refusal
+Added: to approve, product licenses or other applications, the suspension or termination of clinical investigations, the revocation of approvals
+Added: previously granted, as well as fines, criminal prosecution, recall or seizure of products, injunctions against shipping products and suspension
+Added: of production and/or refusals of government contracts.
+Added: FDA Review Process and Product Approval
+Added: Our product candidates are regulated as biologics
+Added: and must be approved by the FDA before they may be marketed in the U.S.
+Added: This process generally involves the following:
+Added: ● completion of preclinical studies in accordance with the
+Added: FDA’s current Good Laboratory Practices (“GLP”) requirements;
+Added: ● submission to the FDA of an IND, which must become effective
+Added: before human clinical trials may begin and must be updated annually;
+Added: ● approval by an independent Institutional Review Board (“IRB”) ethics committee at each clinical
+Added: site before the trial is initiated;
+Added: ● performance of adequate and well-controlled clinical trials to establish the safety, purity and potency
+Added: of the proposed biologic, and its safety and efficacy for each indication, in accordance with good clinical practice (“GCP”);
+Added: ● submission to the FDA of a BLA for a new biologic, after completion of all pivotal clinical trials;
+Added: ● a determination by the FDA within 60 days of its receipt of a BLA to file the application for review;
+Added: ● satisfactory completion of an FDA pre-approval inspection of the manufacturing
+Added: facilities to assess compliance with applicable current Good Manufacturing Practice (“cGMP”) regulations;
+Added: ● potential FDA audit of the clinical trial sites that generated the data in support of the BLA;
+Added: ● FDA review and approval of a BLA for a new biologic, prior to any commercial marketing or sale of the
+Added: product in the U.S.
+Added: Clinical trials generally are conducted in three
+Added: sequential phases, although they may overlap or be combined.
+Added: ● Phase 1 studies are designed to evaluate the safety, dosage tolerance, metabolism and pharmacologic actions
+Added: of the investigational product in humans, the side effects associated with increasing doses, and if possible, to gain early evidence on
+Added: effectiveness
+Added: ● Phase 2 studies are conducted to preliminarily or further evaluate the effectiveness of the investigational
+Added: product for a particular indication(s) in patients with the disease or condition under study, to determine dosage tolerance and optimal
+Added: dosage, and to identify possible adverse side effects and safety risks associated with the product
+Added: ● Phase 3 clinical trials generally involve a large number of patients at multiple sites designed to provide
+Added: the data required to demonstrate the effectiveness of the product for its intended use, safety and to establish the benefit-risk relationship
+Added: of the product and provide an adequate basis for product labeling
+Added: The results of the preclinical and clinical testing,
+Added: along with information regarding the manufacturing of the product and proposed product labeling, are evaluated and, if determined appropriate,
+Added: submitted to the FDA through a BLA.
+Added: Once the BLA submission has been accepted for filing, the FDA’s standard goal is to review applications
+Added: within ten months of the filing date or, if the application relates to a drug that treats a serious condition and would provide a significant
+Added: improvement in safety or effectiveness qualifying for Priority Review, six months from the filing date.
+Added: The review process is often significantly
+Added: extended by FDA requests for additional information or clarification.
+Added: The FDA offers certain programs, such as Breakthrough Designation (“BTD”)
+Added: and Fast Track designation, designed to expedite the development and review of applications for products intended for the treatment of
+Added: a serious or life-threatening disease or condition.
+Added: For BTD, preliminary clinical evidence of the product indicates that it may demonstrate
+Added: substantial improvement over existing therapies on one or more clinically significant endpoints.
+Added: The FDA may initiate review of sections
+Added: of a BLA before the application is complete, and the product may be eligible for accelerated approval.
+Added: However, receipt of BTD or Fast
+Added: Track designation does not ensure that a product will be developed or approved on an expedited basis, or at all.
+Added: The FDA reviews the BLA to determine, among other
+Added: things, whether the proposed product is safe, pure and potent, which includes determining whether it is effective for its intended use,
+Added: and whether the product is being manufactured in accordance with cGMP, to assure and preserve the product’s identity, strength,
quality, potency and purity.
−Removed: The FDA may involve an advisory
−Removed: committee for novel biological products that present complex questions of safety or efficacy.
−Removed: The advisory committee typically consists
−Removed: of a panel that includes clinicians and other subject matter experts that assist with the reviewing and evaluating the product.
−Removed: the advisory committee provides a recommendation for whether the product should be approved and under what conditions, the FDA is not
−Removed: bound to follow the recommendations.
−Removed: However, the advisory committee’s recommendations are usually given significant consideration.
−Removed: The FDA may also consider
−Removed: requiring a risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (“REMS”) if it determines that one is necessary to ensure that the biological
−Removed: product is used safely.
−Removed: If the FDA requires a REMS, the BLA sponsor must develop and submit a proposed REMS for the BLA review process
−Removed: to move forward.
−Removed: The manufacturer of the biological
−Removed: product is also subject to FDA inspection prior to the approval of the BLA.
−Removed: The purpose of the inspection is to determine whether the
−Removed: manufacturer adequately complies with the applicable cGMP requirements to ensure that the biological product is manufactured safely and
−Removed: within the required specifications.
−Removed: Additionally, the FDA may choose to inspect one or more clinical sites to assess compliance with IND
−Removed: trial requirements and good clinical practices (“GCPs”).
−Removed: Compliance with cGMP and GCP requirements involves significant expenditures
−Removed: of time, money, and effort for BLA sponsors due to associated training, recordkeeping, production, and quality control needs.
−Removed: If the FDA decides not to
−Removed: approve the BLA in the form submitted, it will issue what is called a complete response letter that outlines the specific deficiencies
−Removed: it would like to see addressed.
−Removed: The deficiencies identified can be minor (e.g., labeling changes) or major (e.g., the need for additional
−Removed: clinical trials).
−Removed: The complete response letter may also include recommended actions the applicant may take to move closer towards securing
−Removed: At this point, applicants may choose to resubmit the BLA to address FDA’s concerns or withdraw the application.
−Removed: In addition, under the Pediatric
−Removed: Research Equity Act, a BLA or supplement to a BLA must contain data to assess the safety and effectiveness of the product for the claimed
−Removed: indications in all relevant pediatric subpopulations and to support dosing and administration for each pediatric subpopulation for which
−Removed: the product is safe and effective.
−Removed: The FDA may grant deferrals for submission of data or full or partial waivers.
+Added: The FDA may refer an application to an advisory committee for review, evaluation and recommendation as to
+Added: whether the application should be approved, and applications for new molecular entities and original BLAs are generally discussed at advisory
+Added: committee meetings unless the FDA determines that this type of consultation is not needed under the circumstances.
+Added: After the FDA evaluates the BLA and conducts inspections of manufacturing
+Added: facilities, it may issue an approval letter or a complete response letter (“CRL”).
+Added: An approval letter authorizes commercial
+Added: marketing of the biologic with specific prescribing information for specific indications.
+Added: A CRL indicates that the review cycle of the
+Added: application is complete, but the FDA cannot grant approval.
+Added: A CRL may require additional inspections, and/or other significant, expensive
+Added: and time-consuming requirements related to clinical trials, preclinical studies or manufacturing.
+Added: The FDA could approve the BLA with a
+Added: Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (“REMS”) to mitigate risks, which could include medication guides, physician communication
+Added: plans, or elements to assure safe use, such as restricted distribution methods, patient registries and other risk minimization tools.
+Added: The FDA also may condition approval on, among other things, changes to proposed labeling, development of adequate controls and specifications,
+Added: or a commitment to conduct one or more post-market studies or clinical trials.
+Added: Such post-market testing may include Phase 4 clinical trials
+Added: and surveillance to further assess and monitor the product’s safety and effectiveness after commercialization.
Post-Approval Requirements
−Removed: If the BLA is approved, the
−Removed: FDA may include additional conditions as part of its approval, such as limiting the approval by designating specific diseases for which
−Removed: the product may be used.
−Removed: Additionally, conditions may include requiring the labeling to include specific contraindications, warnings,
−Removed: or precautions, requiring post marketing clinical trials (sometimes referred to as Phase 4 clinical trials), and implementation of surveillance
−Removed: program to monitor the approved product once commercialized.
−Removed: Products approved by the FDA
−Removed: under a BLA are subject to ongoing regulatory requirements, including, among other things, record-keeping requirements, adverse event
−Removed: reporting requirements, responsibility for reporting updated safety and efficacy information to FDA, sampling and distribution requirements,
−Removed: complying with advertising and promotion requirements, and complying with cGMPs.
−Removed: Quality control and manufacturing
−Removed: procedures must continue to comply with cGMP requirements even after the BLA is approved.
−Removed: The cGMP regulations include, but are not limited
−Removed: to, requirements to ensure quality control, maintain appropriate manufacturing records and documentation, and the obligation to investigate
−Removed: and address deviations from cGMPs, when identified.
−Removed: Manufacturers are also required to register their establishments with the FDA and
−Removed: certain state agencies.
−Removed: The establishments are also subject to unannounced inspections by regulators.
−Removed: The advertising and promotion
−Removed: of drug and biologic products are also subject to specific laws and regulations.
−Removed: These authorities provide standards for direct-to-consumer
−Removed: advertising, restrictions on promoting products for uses or to patient populations that are not described in the product’s approved
−Removed: uses, known as “off-label” use, limitations on industry-sponsored scientific and educational activities, and requirements
−Removed: for promotional activities involving the internet.
−Removed: Regulatory Enforcement
−Removed: Failure to comply with applicable
−Removed: regulatory requirements can result in enforcement action by the FDA, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission or other regulatory authorities,
−Removed: which may result in sanctions, including but not limited to, untitled letters, warning letters, fines, injunctions, consent decrees and
−Removed: civil penalties;
−Removed: customer notifications or repair, replacement, refunds, recall, detention or seizure of our products;
−Removed: operating restrictions
−Removed: or partial suspension or total shutdown of production;
−Removed: refusing or delaying our requests for BLA premarket approval of new products or
−Removed: modified products;
−Removed: withdrawing BLA approvals that have already been granted;
−Removed: and refusal to grant export.
−Removed: Additional Healthcare Laws
−Removed: In addition to FDA regulations,
−Removed: several other types of state and federal laws may restrict our business activities, including certain healthcare laws.
−Removed: These laws include,
−Removed: without limitation, anti-kickback laws, false claims laws, data privacy and security laws, as well as transparency laws regarding payments
−Removed: or other items of value provided to healthcare providers.
−Removed: The federal Anti-Kickback
−Removed: Statute prohibits, among other things, knowingly and willfully offering, paying, soliciting or receiving remuneration to induce or in
−Removed: return for purchasing, leasing, ordering or arranging for the purchase, lease or order of any healthcare item, good, facility or service
−Removed: reimbursable under Medicare, Medicaid or other federal healthcare programs.
−Removed: The term “remuneration” has been broadly interpreted
−Removed: to include anything of value.
−Removed: This statute has been interpreted to apply to arrangements between pharmaceutical manufacturers on the one
−Removed: hand and prescribers, purchasers and formulary managers on the other hand.
−Removed: Although there are a number of statutory exceptions and regulatory
−Removed: safe harbors protecting certain common activities from prosecution or other regulatory sanctions, the exceptions and safe harbors are
−Removed: drawn narrowly and arrangements must meet every element to qualify for an exception or safe harbor.
−Removed: Failure to meet all of the requirements
−Removed: of a particular applicable statutory exception or regulatory safe harbor does not make the conduct per se illegal under the federal
−Removed: Anti-Kickback Statute.
−Removed: Instead, the arrangement will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis based on the facts and circumstances involved.
−Removed: Courts have interpreted the statute’s intent requirement to mean that if any one purpose of an arrangement involving remuneration
−Removed: is to induce referrals of federal healthcare program business, the federal Anti-Kickback Statute has been violated.
−Removed: Additionally, the
−Removed: intent standard under the federal Anti-Kickback Statute was amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, as amended
−Removed: by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, collectively the “Affordable Care Act,” to a stricter standard
−Removed: such that a person or entity no longer needs to have actual knowledge of the statute or specific intent to violate it in order to have
−Removed: committed a violation.
−Removed: In addition, the Affordable Care Act codified case law that a violation of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute constitutes
−Removed: a false or fraudulent claim for purposes of the federal False Claims Act.
−Removed: Federal false claims laws,
−Removed: including the federal False Claims Act, and civil monetary penalties laws, prohibit any person or entity from, among other things, knowingly
−Removed: presenting, or causing to be presented, a false claim for payment to the federal government, or knowingly making, or causing to be made,
−Removed: a false statement to have a false claim paid.
−Removed: Whistleblower or qui tam provisions under the False Claims Act permit whistleblowers to
−Removed: sue in the name of the federal government for False Claims Act violations, and to share in the recovery from any award.
−Removed: Pharmaceutical
−Removed: and other healthcare companies have been prosecuted under these laws for, among other things, allegedly inflating drug prices they report
−Removed: to pricing services, which in turn were used by the government to set Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates, and for allegedly providing
−Removed: free product to customers with the expectation that the customers would bill federal programs for the product.
−Removed: In addition, certain marketing
−Removed: practices, including off-label promotion, may also violate false claims laws.
−Removed: The federal Health Insurance
−Removed: Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPAA, created additional federal civil and criminal statutes that prohibit among other
−Removed: actions, knowingly and willfully executing, or attempting to execute, a scheme to defraud any healthcare benefit program, including private
−Removed: third-party payors, knowingly and willfully embezzling or stealing from a healthcare benefit program, willfully obstructing a criminal
−Removed: investigation of a healthcare offense, and knowingly and willfully falsifying, concealing or covering up a material fact or making any
−Removed: materially false, fictitious or fraudulent statement in connection with the delivery of or payment for healthcare benefits, items or services.
−Removed: Like the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, the Affordable Care Act amended the intent standard for certain healthcare fraud under HIPAA such
−Removed: that a person or entity no longer needs to have actual knowledge of the statute or specific intent to violate it in order to have committed
−Removed: In addition, if we engage
−Removed: in certain activities, we may be subject to data privacy and security regulation under HIPAA, as amended by the Health Information Technology
−Removed: for Economic and Clinical Health Act, or HITECH.
−Removed: HIPAA imposes certain requirements on covered entities, which include certain healthcare
−Removed: providers, health plans and healthcare clearinghouses, and their business associates and covered subcontractors that receive or obtain
−Removed: protected health information in connection with providing a service on behalf of a covered entity that involves the use or disclosure
−Removed: of individually identifiable health information.
−Removed: Additionally, the federal
−Removed: Physician Payments Sunshine Act, created under the Affordable Care Act, and its implementing regulations, require certain manufacturers
−Removed: of drugs, devices, biologicals and medical supplies for which payment is available under Medicare, Medicaid or the Children’s Health
−Removed: Insurance Program (with certain exceptions) to report annually information related to certain payments or other transfers of value provided
−Removed: to physicians and any ownership and investment interests held by physicians or their immediate family members.
−Removed: Beginning in 2022, applicable
−Removed: manufacturers also will be required to report such information regarding payments and other transfers of value to physician assistants,
−Removed: nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, anesthesiologist assistants, certified registered nurse anesthetists and certified nurse
−Removed: midwives during the previous year.
−Removed: The majority of states also
−Removed: have statutes or regulations similar to the aforementioned federal healthcare laws, including fraud and abuse laws, some of which are
−Removed: broader in scope and apply to items and services reimbursed under Medicaid and other state programs, or, in some states, apply regardless
−Removed: of the payor.
−Removed: Many states also have some form of health information privacy or data security laws that could apply.
−Removed: Further, some state
−Removed: laws require pharmaceutical companies to comply with the pharmaceutical industry’s voluntary compliance guidelines and the relevant
−Removed: compliance guidance promulgated by the federal government in addition to requiring drug manufacturers to report information related to
−Removed: payments or other transfers of value provided to physicians and other healthcare providers and entities, marketing expenditures, or drug
−Removed: Certain state and local laws also require the registration of pharmaceutical sales representatives.
−Removed: If our operations are found
−Removed: to be in violation of any of the healthcare regulatory laws described above or any other laws that apply to us, we may be subject to potentially
−Removed: significant criminal, civil and administrative penalties, damages, fines, disgorgement, imprisonment, additional reporting obligations
−Removed: and oversight (if we become subject to a corporate integrity agreement or other agreement to resolve allegations of non-compliance with
−Removed: these laws), exclusion from participation in government healthcare programs, as well as contractual damages, reputational harm, administrative
−Removed: burdens, diminished profits and future earnings, and the curtailment or restructuring of our operations, any of which could adversely
−Removed: affect our ability to operate our business and our results of operations.
−Removed: As of March 25, 2022, we have
−Removed: 32 full-time employees including 20 with M.D., Ph.D.
−Removed: or other advanced degrees.
−Removed: We believe that our future
−Removed: success largely depends upon our continued ability to attract and retain highly skilled employees.
−Removed: We provide our employees with competitive
−Removed: salaries and bonuses, opportunity for equity ownership, development programs that enable continued learning and growth, and an employment
−Removed: package that promotes wellness across all aspects of their lives, including healthcare, retirement planning, and paid time off.
−Removed: these employees are covered by a collective bargaining agreement, and we believe our relationship with our employees is good.
−Removed: engage consultants on an as-needed basis to supplement existing staff.
−Removed: Recent Developments
−Removed: Impact of COVID–19 Pandemic
−Removed: The global health crisis
−Removed: caused by the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic and its resurgences has and may continue to negatively impact global economic activity,
−Removed: which, despite progress in vaccination efforts, remains uncertain and cannot be predicted with confidence.
−Removed: In addition, the Omicron variant
−Removed: of COVID-19, which appears to be the most transmissible variant to date, has spread globally.
−Removed: The full impact of the Omicron variant,
−Removed: or any subsequent variant, cannot be predicted at this time, and could depend on numerous factors, including vaccination rates among
−Removed: the population, the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against the Omicron variant and the response by governmental bodies and regulators.
−Removed: Given the ongoing and dynamic nature of the circumstances, it is difficult to predict the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business.
−Removed: Many countries around the
−Removed: world have continued to impose quarantines and restrictions on travel and mass gatherings to slow the spread of the virus.
−Removed: our ability to continue to operate our business may also be limited.
−Removed: Such events may result in a period of business, supply and drug
−Removed: product manufacturing disruption, and in reduced operations, any of which could materially affect our business, financial condition and
−Removed: results of operations.
−Removed: In response to COVID-19, we implemented remote working and thus far have not experienced a significant disruption
−Removed: or delay in our operations as it relates to the clinical development of our drug candidates.
−Removed: Such government-imposed precautionary measures
−Removed: may have been relaxed in certain countries or states, but there is no assurance that more strict measures will be put in place again
−Removed: due to a resurgence in COVID-19 cases, including those involving new variants of the coronavirus, which may be more contagious and deadly
−Removed: than prior strains.
−Removed: Therefore, the COVID-19 pandemic may continue to affect our operation, may further divert the attention and efforts
−Removed: of the medical community to coping with COVID-19 and disrupt the marketplace in which we operate and may have a material adverse effect
−Removed: on our operations.
−Removed: A continuation or worsening
−Removed: of the levels of market disruption and volatility seen in the recent past could have an adverse effect on our ability to access capital,
−Removed: which could in the future negatively affect our liquidity.
−Removed: In addition, a recession or market correction resulting from the spread of
−Removed: COVID-19 could materially affect our business and the value of our common stock.
−Removed: We believe our earlier stage
−Removed: CD33 clinical trials will continue to recruit and enroll patients given the acute nature of relapsed or refractory AML.
−Removed: The continuation
−Removed: of the pandemic could adversely affect our planned clinical trial operations, including our ability to conduct the trials on the expected
−Removed: timelines and recruit and retain patients and principal investigators and site staff who, as healthcare providers, may have heightened
−Removed: exposure to COVID-19 if their geography is impacted by the pandemic.
−Removed: Further, the continuation and/or resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic
−Removed: could result in delays in our clinical trials due to prioritization of hospital resources toward the pandemic, restrictions in travel,
−Removed: potential unwillingness of patients to enroll in trials at this time, or the inability of patients to comply with clinical trial protocols
−Removed: if quarantines or travel restrictions impede patient movement or interrupt healthcare services.
−Removed: In addition, we rely on independent clinical
−Removed: investigators, contract research organizations and other third-party service providers to assist us in managing, monitoring and otherwise
−Removed: carrying out our preclinical studies and clinical trials, and the pandemic may affect their ability to devote sufficient time and resources
−Removed: to our programs or to travel to sites to perform work for us, which may result in delays or hinder our ability to collect data from our
−Removed: clinical trials.
−Removed: Additionally, COVID-19 may
−Removed: result in delays in receiving approvals from local and foreign regulatory authorities, delays in necessary interactions with IRB’s
−Removed: or Institutional Review Boards, local and foreign regulators, ethics committees and other important agencies and contractors due to limitations
−Removed: in employee resources or forced furlough of government employees.
−Removed: To date, COVID-19 has not
−Removed: had a financial impact on our company.
−Removed: We continue to monitor the impacts of COVID-19 on the global economy and on our business operations.
−Removed: Although we expect that vaccinations for COVID-19 will continue to improve conditions, the ultimate impact from COVID-19 on our business
−Removed: operations and financial results during 2022 will depend on, among other things, the ultimate severity and scope of the pandemic, including
−Removed: the new variants of the virus, the pace at which governmental and private travel restrictions and public concerns about public gatherings
−Removed: will ease, the rate at which historically large increases in unemployment rates will decrease, if at all, and whether, and the speed with
−Removed: which the economy recovers.
−Removed: We are not able to fully quantify the impact that these factors will have on our financial results during
−Removed: 2022 and beyond.
+Added: Any products manufactured or distributed by us
+Added: or on our behalf pursuant to FDA approvals are subject to continuing regulation by the FDA and certain state agencies, including requirements
+Added: for record-keeping, reporting of adverse experiences with the biologic, submitting biological product deviation reports to notify the
+Added: FDA of unanticipated changes in distributed products, establishment registration, compliance with cGMP standards, and certain state licensing
+Added: requirements.
+Added: Additionally, any significant change in the approved
+Added: product or in how it is manufactured, including changes in formulation or the site of manufacture, generally require prior FDA approval.
+Added: The packaging and labeling of all products developed by us are also subject to FDA approval and ongoing regulation.
+Added: Noncompliance with
+Added: any regulatory requirements can result in, among other things, issuance of warning letters, civil and criminal penalties, seizures, and
+Added: injunctive action.
+Added: Accordingly, manufacturers must continue to maintain compliance with cGMP and other aspects of regulatory compliance.
+Added: The commercial distribution of prescription drugs is subject to the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (“DSCSA”), which regulates
+Added: the distribution of the products at the federal level and sets certain standards for federal or state registration and compliance of entities
+Added: in the supply chain.
+Added: The DSCSA preempts certain previously enacted
+Added: state laws and the pedigree requirements of the Prescription Drug Marketing Act (“PDMA”).
+Added: Trading partners within the drug supply
+Added: chain must now ensure certain product tracing requirements are met, and are required to exchange transaction information, transaction
+Added: history, and transaction statements.
+Added: Product identifier information (an aspect of the product tracing scheme) is also now required.
+Added: DSCSA requirements, development of standards, and the system for product tracing have been and will continue to be phased in over a period
+Added: of years through 2023.
+Added: In addition to new legislation, FDA regulations, guidance documents, and policies are often revised or reinterpreted
+Added: by the agency in ways that may significantly affect our business and our product candidates.
+Added: Orphan Drug Act
+Added: We have received Orphan Drug designation for Iomab-B
+Added: and Actimab-A for patients with AML.
+Added: Under the Orphan Drug Act, FDA may grant Orphan Drug designation to drugs intended to treat a rare
+Added: disease or condition, which is generally defined as a disease or condition that affects fewer than 200,000 individuals in the U.S.
+Added: Drug designation must be requested before submitting a BLA.
+Added: In the U.S., Orphan Drug designation entitles a party to financial incentives
+Added: such as opportunities for grant funding towards clinical trial costs, tax advantages, and user-fee waivers.
+Added: Orphan Drug designation does
+Added: not convey any advantage in, or shorten the duration of, the regulatory review and approval process.
+Added: The first BLA applicant to receive
+Added: FDA approval for a particular active ingredient to treat a particular disease with FDA Orphan Drug designation is entitled to a seven-year
+Added: exclusive marketing period in the U.S.
+Added: for that product, for that indication.
+Added: During the seven-year exclusivity period, FDA may not approve
+Added: any other applications to market the same drug for the same orphan indication, except in limited circumstances, such as a showing of clinical
+Added: superiority to the product with orphan exclusivity or where the manufacturer of the approved product cannot assure sufficient quantities.
+Added: As a result, there can be no assurance that our competitors will not receive approval of drugs or biologics that have a different active
+Added: ingredient for treatment of the diseases for which our products and product candidates are targeted.
+Added: Pediatric Information
+Added: Under the Pediatric Research Equity Act (“PREA”),
+Added: certain BLAs must contain data to assess the safety and efficacy of the drug or biologic for the claimed indications in all relevant pediatric
+Added: subpopulations and to support dosing and administration for each pediatric subpopulation for which the product is safe and effective.
+Added: The Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (“FDASIA”), amended the FDCA to require that a sponsor who is planning
+Added: to submit a marketing application for a drug that includes a new active ingredient, new indication, new dosage form, new dosing regimen
+Added: or new route of administration submit an initial Pediatric Study Plan (“PSP”) within 60 days of an end of Phase 2 meeting
+Added: or, if there is no such meeting, as early as practicable before the initiation of the Phase 3 or Phase 2/3 study.
+Added: The initial PSP must
+Added: include an outline of the pediatric study or studies that the sponsor plans to conduct or a justification for not including such detailed
+Added: information, and any request for a deferral of pediatric assessments or a full or partial waiver.
+Added: The FDA may grant deferrals for submission
+Added: of pediatric data or full or partial waivers.
+Added: A sponsor can submit amendments to an initial PSP if changes to the pediatric plan need
+Added: to be considered based on preclinical data collected, early phase clinical trials as well as other clinical development programs.
+Added: Foreign Regulation
+Added: In addition to regulations in the U.S., we are
+Added: subject to foreign regulations governing clinical trials and commercial sales and distribution of our product candidates, and products
+Added: being marketed outside of the U.S.
+Added: We must obtain approval by the comparable regulatory authorities of foreign countries before we can
+Added: commence clinical trials or marketing of our products in those countries.
+Added: The approval process varies from country to country, and the
+Added: time may be longer or shorter than required by the FDA for BLA licensure.
+Added: The requirements governing the conduct of clinical trials, product
+Added: licensing, pricing and reimbursement vary greatly from country to country.
+Added: As in the U.S., we are subject to post-approval regulatory
+Added: requirements.
+Added: Other Regulatory Considerations
+Added: We are also subject to regulation under the Occupational
+Added: Safety and Health Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, The Clean Air Act, and other current
+Added: and potential future federal, state, or local regulations.
+Added: Our research and development activities involve the controlled use of hazardous
+Added: materials, chemicals, biological materials and various radioactive compounds.
+Added: We believe that our procedures comply with the standards
+Added: prescribed by state and federal regulations;
+Added: however, the risk of injury or accidental contamination cannot be completely eliminated.
+Added: We may also be subject to healthcare regulation and enforcement by the federal government and the states and foreign governments where
+Added: we may market our products and product candidates, if approved.
+Added: These laws and regulations include, without limitation, state and federal
+Added: anti-kickback, fraud and abuse, false claims, data privacy and security, aggregate spend reporting, and product price advertising.
+Added: The federal Anti-Kickback Statute, which prohibits,
+Added: among other things, persons and entities including pharmaceutical manufacturers from knowingly and willfully soliciting, receiving, offering
+Added: or paying remuneration, directly or indirectly, overtly or covertly, in case or in kind, to induce or reward, or in return for, or either
+Added: the referral of an individual for, or the purchase, lease or order or recommendation of an item or service reimbursable, in whole or in
+Added: part, under a federal healthcare program, such as the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
+Added: The failure to meet all of the requirements of a
+Added: particular applicable statutory exception or regulatory safe harbor does not make the conduct per se illegal under the federal Anti-Kickback
+Added: Instead, the legality of the arrangement will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis based on a cumulative review of all of its
+Added: facts and circumstances.
+Added: In addition, Patient Protection and Affordable
+Added: Care Act of 2010, as amended (“ACA”) codified cash law that a claim including items or services resulting from a violation of
+Added: the federal Anti-Kickback Statute constitutes a false or fraudulent claim for purposes of the federal civil False Claims Act (“FCA”).
+Added: The FCA prohibits individuals or entities from, among other things, knowingly presenting or causing the presentation of a claims payment
+Added: to, or approval by, the federal government that are false, fictitious or fraudulent, or knowingly making, using or causing to be made
+Added: or used, a false record or statement material to a false or fraudulent claim to avoid, decrease or conceal an obligation to pay money
+Added: to the federal government.
+Added: Our activities relating to the reporting of wholesaler or estimated retail prices for our products, the reporting
+Added: of prices used to calculate Medicaid rebate information and other information affecting federal, state and third-party reimbursement for
+Added: our products, and the sale and marketing of our products, are subject to scrutiny under the FCA.
+Added: State statutes and regulations equivalent
+Added: or substantially similar to the federal laws may extend to items and services reimbursed by commercial insurers and/or by patients directly.
+Added: State law equivalents to the Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act may not have adopted exceptions and safe harbors available at
+Added: the federal level and therefore, may implicate a broader range of activities.
+Added: The federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
+Added: Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) imposes criminal and civil liability for knowingly and willfully executing, or attempting to execute,
+Added: a scheme to defraud or obtain, by any means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations or promises, any money or property owned
+Added: by, or under the control or custody of, any healthcare benefit program, including private third-party payors, and knowingly and willfully
+Added: falsifying, concealing or covering up by trick, scheme or device, a material fact or making any materially false, fictitious or fraudulent
+Added: statement in connection with the delivery of or payment for healthcare benefits, items or services.
+Added: The federal physician payment transparency
+Added: requirements, sometimes referred to as the “Physician Payments Sunshine Act,” created under the ACA, and its implementing
+Added: regulations, which requires applicable manufacturers of covered drugs, devices, biologics and medical supplies for which payment is available
+Added: under Medicare, Medicaid or the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (with certain exceptions) to annually report to the Department
+Added: of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), information related to certain payments or other transfers of value made or distributed
+Added: to physicians and teaching hospitals, or to entities or individuals at the request of, or designated on behalf of, the physicians and
+Added: teaching hospitals, as well as ownership and investment interests held by physicians and their immediate family members.
+Added: legislation, the Sunshine Act will extend to payments and transfers of value to physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and other mid-level
+Added: healthcare providers.
+Added: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has the potential to impose penalties for violations
+Added: of the Sunshine Act, depending on the circumstances, and payments reported under the Sunshine Act also have the potential to draw scrutiny
+Added: on payments to and relationships with physicians and teaching hospitals, which may have implications under the Anti-Kickback Statute and
+Added: other healthcare laws.
+Added: We may also be subject to data privacy and security
+Added: regulation by both the federal government and the state governments in which we conduct our business.
+Added: HIPAA, as amended by the Health
+Added: Information Technology and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (“HITECH”) and their respective implementing regulations, imposes, among
+Added: other things, obligations, including mandatory contractual terms with respect to safeguarding the privacy, security and transmission of
+Added: individually identifiable health information held by certain healthcare providers, health plans and healthcare clearinghouses, known as
+Added: covered entities, and business associates.
+Added: The HHS Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) has increased its focus on compliance and
+Added: continues to train state attorneys general for enforcement purposes.
+Added: Even where HIPAA does not apply, according to the U.S.
+Added: Federal Trade
+Added: Commission (“FTC”), failing to take appropriate steps to keep consumers’ personal information secure constitutes unfair acts
+Added: or practices in or affecting commerce in violation of Section 5(a) of the Federal Trade Commission Act (“FTCA”), 15 U.S.
+Added: Medical data is considered sensitive data that merits stronger safeguards.
+Added: There are numerous other laws and legislative
+Added: and regulatory initiatives at the federal and state levels addressing privacy and security concerns, and some state privacy laws apply
+Added: in broader circumstances than HIPAA.
+Added: We are subject to the U.S.
+Added: Foreign Corrupt Practices
+Added: Act (“FCPA”), which prohibits corporations and individuals from engaging in certain activities to obtain or retain business
+Added: or to influence a person working in an official capacity.
+Added: Our present and future business has been and will continue to be subject to
+Added: various other laws and regulations.
+Added: Human Capital
+Added: As of March 31, 2023, we had 49 full-time employees,
+Added: 17 of whom have Ph.D.
+Added: degrees and 22 of whom are engaged in research and development and clinical development activities.
+Added: that we have been successful to date in attracting skilled and experienced personnel despite the competitive hiring marketing in the industry.
+Added: Our employees are not covered by a collective bargaining agreement, and we believe that our relationship with our employees is excellent.
+Added: We continue to engage external consultants on an as-needed basis to temporarily supplement existing staff.
+Added: Corporate Information
+Added: We were incorporated under the laws of the State
+Added: of Delaware in 2013.
+Added: Our principal executive offices are located at 275 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, and our telephone number is
+Added: (646) 677-3870.
+Added: Our website address is www.actiniumpharma.com.
+Added: The information contained on our website or that can be accessed through
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