Kairos Pharma Presents Preclinical Data on its Investigational Compounds KROS 101 and KROS 401 Further Supporting Both Compounds’ Potential as Therapeutics for Melanoma and Glioblastoma
26 2월 2025 - 9:00PM
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Kairos Pharma, Ltd. (NYSE American: KAPA), a clinical-stage
biopharmaceutical company, announced that the company presented
preclinical data on its investigational compounds KROS 101 and KROS
401 during the American Association for Cancer Research
Immuno-Oncology (AACR IO) conference held in Los Angeles from
February 23-26, 2025. The data highlighted positive preclinical
outcomes with the Company’s glucocorticoid-induced tumor necrosis
factor receptor (GITR) agonist KROS101 in melanoma and glioblastoma
as well as its peptide inhibitor for macrophages KROS 401 in glioma
animal models.
In the presentation, titled “KROS 101: A Next Generation GITR
agonist boosting anti-tumor T cell responses and reprogramming the
tumor environment,” study authors demonstrated that KROS
significantly inhibited tumor growth in a preclinical melanoma
model. The same team of scientists also showed that KROS 101
increased the proliferation of helper and cytotoxic T cells (CD4+
and CD8+), while decreasing T reg cell growth in a melanoma model.
Further, T cells treated with KROS 101 showed cytotoxicity against
glioblastoma cell lines and glioma cancer cells, which study
authors, Admasu, et. al., concluded KROS 101 demonstrated potent
anti-tumor activity compared to a previously used antibody against
the GITR receptor TRX518 that was in clinical trials. Most
importantly, the authors demonstrated KROS 101 but not TRX518 to
prevent the exhaustion of T cells in the tumor.
The second presentation, titled, “Targeting M2 macrophage
polarization: The anti-tumor effects of IL-4/IL-13 blocking peptide
and iron oxide nanoparticles,” demonstrated the Company’s peptide
inhibitor KROS 401 may effectively reprogram macrophages – types of
white blood cell of the innate immune system that engulf and digest
pathogens, such as cancer cells, microbes, cellular debris and
foreign substances – to inhibit tumor growth. The preclinical study
demonstrated that KROS 401 exhibited an anti-tumor effect in
glioma-bearing mice following a decrease in M2 macrophages, which
are known to facilitate tumor growth.
Dr. John Yu, CEO of Kairos Pharma and co-inventor, commented,
“We continue to receive validation of our preclinical data
demonstrating our KROS platform’s development of anti-tumor
therapies. KROS 101 addresses an Achilles' heel of all T cell
immunotherapies and that is the development of exhaustion in
anti-tumor T cells. KROS 101 appears to prevent the development of
exhaustion by T cells enabling them to continue to kill tumor
cells.”
Dr. Ram Murali, VP of Research and Development stated, “KROS 401
is designed to reverse the M1 to M2 transition of macrophages in
the tumor microenviroment. What this translates to is changing
pro-tumor macrophages into anti-tumor macrophages. This leads to
tumor-killing activity by both macrophages and T cells.”
The American Association for Cancer Research Immuno-Oncology
(AACR IO) encompasses the very best of basic, translational, and
clinical research in immunology, inflammation, and immunotherapies
for cancer, including immuno-oncology (IO) drugs, inflammatory
modulators, vaccines, and cellular therapies. The cutting-edge AACR
IO 2025 program will appeal to a wide audience of basic scientists,
translational researchers, clinical investigators, regulators,
industry, investors, and lay press. A mix of keynote lectures,
major symposia, spotlight sessions, educational sessions, special
sessions, and poster sessions with exhibits will cover the spectrum
of the IO field—including late-breaking clinical trials sessions
highlighting new agents and IO combinations, and the results of
practice-changing clinical trials.
About Kairos Pharma Ltd.
Based in Los Angeles, California, Kairos Pharma Ltd. (NYSE
American: KAPA) is at the forefront of oncology therapeutics,
utilizing structural biology to overcome drug resistance and immune
suppression in cancer. Our lead candidate, ENV105, is an antibody
that targets CD105 – a protein identified as a key driver of
resistance to various cancer treatments. Elevation of CD105 in
response to standard therapy results in resistance and disease
relapse. ENV105 aims to reverse drug resistance by targeting CD105
and restore the effectiveness of standard therapies across multiple
cancer types. Currently, ENV105 is in a Phase 2 clinical trial for
castrate-resistant prostate cancer and a Phase 1 trial for lung
cancer aimed at addressing significant unmet medical needs. For
more information, visit kairospharma.com.
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