Eureka Therapeutics Announces UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals as First California Site for ARYA-2 Clinical Trial Targeting Pediatric Liver Cancers
Eureka Therapeutics Advances ARYA-3 Clinical Trial to Phase II for Treatment of Liver Cancer Using GPC3-Targeting ARTEMIS® T-cell Therapy
EMERYVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Eureka Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel T-cell therapies to treat cancer, today announced that the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) awarded the Company a $10.6 million grant to support its ongoing ARYA-2 Phase I study of ET140203 for the treatment of pediatric patients with refractory/relapsed liver cancer, including hepatoblastoma (HB), hepatocellular neoplasm not otherwise specified (HCN-NOS), and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
Eureka Therapeutics Licenses Promising Antibody Targeting Mesothelin from the National Cancer Institute
EMERYVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Eureka Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel T cell therapies to treat cancer, today announced it has entered into a license agreement with the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, for a glypican 2 (GPC2) binding domain to be used for the potential development and commercialization of ARTEMIS® T cell therapies for patients with neuroblastoma, a rare cancer that affects the developing nervous system. The therapy also has expansion potential in medulloblastoma and small cell lung cancer, among several other pediatric and adult cancers that express an abundance of the GPC2 protein on their cell surface.
EMERYVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Eureka Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel T-cell therapies to treat solid tumors, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) to ET140203 for the treatment of hepatoblastoma (HB), a rare childhood tumor in the liver that typically occurs in children under the age of 5.
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EMERYVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Eureka Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel T cell therapies to treat cancer, today announced the publication of a study in the New England Journal of Medicine entitled “GPRC5D-Targeted CAR T Cells for Myeloma.” The study was led by Dr. Eric Smith of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Dr. Renier Brentjens of the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Dr. Sham Mailankody of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK).
Eureka Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel T cell therapies to treat solid tumors, today announced the publication of a study in Nature’s Scientific Reports entitled “Validation and promise of a TCR mimic antibody for cancer immunotherapy of hepatocellular carcinoma”. The study was led by Dr. Cheng Liu, President and Chief Executive Officer of Eureka, Dr. Brian M. Baker and Dr. Moumita Dasgupta of the University of Notre Dame, and Dr. Chang Liu of The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University.
EMERYVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Eureka Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel T cell therapies to treat solid tumors, today announced the publication of a preclinical study in blood entitled “A TCR Mimic CAR T Cell Specific for NDC80 Is Broadly Reactive With Solid Tumors and Hematological Malignancies”. The study was led by Dr. Cheng Liu, President & Chief Executive Officer of Eureka and Dr. Martin Klatt and Dr. David Scheinberg of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK).