Phase II Trial of Efprezimod Alfa (CD24Fc, MK-7110) for the Prevention of Acute Graft-Versus-Host Disease (GVHD) Following Myeloablative Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) (MK-7110-002)

Summary

This is a multicenter prospective phase IIa dose escalation and phase IIa expansion cohort clinical trial designed to evaluate the safety and tolerability of efprezimod alfa for acute GVHD prophylaxis.

Timeline

Start

2016-09-19

Primary completion

2020-06-08

Completion

2021-05-18

Publications

• Background Toubai T, Rossi C, Oravecz-Wilson K, Zajac C, Liu C, Braun T, Fujiwara H, Wu J, Sun Y, Brabbs S, Tamaki H, Magenau J, Zheng P, Liu Y, Reddy P. Siglec-G represses DAMP-mediated effects on T cells. JCI Insight. 2017 Jul 20;2(14):e92293. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.92293. eCollection 2017 Jul 20.
• Background Toubai T, Hou G, Mathewson N, Liu C, Wang Y, Oravecz-Wilson K, Cummings E, Rossi C, Evers R, Sun Y, Wu J, Choi SW, Fang D, Zheng P, Liu Y, Reddy P. Siglec-G-CD24 axis controls the severity of graft-versus-host disease in mice. Blood. 2014 May 29;123(22):3512-23. doi: 10.1182/blood-2013-12-545335. Epub 2014 Apr 2.
• Background Toubai T, Mathewson ND, Magenau J, Reddy P. Danger Signals and Graft-versus-host Disease: Current Understanding and Future Perspectives. Front Immunol. 2016 Nov 29;7:539. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2016.00539. eCollection 2016.
• Results Magenau J, Jaglowski S, Uberti J, Farag SS, Riwes MM, Pawarode A, Anand S, Ghosh M, Maciejewski J, Braun T, Devenport M, Lu S, Banerjee B, DaSilva C, Devine S, Zhang MJ, Burns LJ, Liu Y, Zheng P, Reddy P. A phase 2 trial of CD24Fc for prevention of graft-versus-host disease. Blood. 2024 Jan 4;143(1):21-31. doi: 10.1182/blood.2023020250.

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