Our team was instrumental in the development of
talimogene laherparepvec, the first in human oncolytic virus therapy for patients with melanoma.
Talimogene laherparepvec (T - VEC, trade name Imlygic) is a genetically engineered herpes simplex virus that preferentially targets cancer cells and then replicates within them while also causing the cells to produce the protein GM - CSF, which recruits immune cells and promotes their growth.
T - VEC, also called talimogene
laherparepvec, is a human herpes simplex virus that is genetically engineered to bring T cells into a tumor and induce an antitumor response.
Our work was instrumental in several FDA approvals of breakthrough anti-cancer drugs (vemurafenib, dabrafenib + trametinib, vemurafenib + cobimetinib, pembrolizumab, talimogene
laherparepvec) and resulted in almost 100 manuscripts, including New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Journal of Clinical Oncology, JAMA, Nature.
4.1 HSV - based Oncolytic Viruses 4.1.1 Imlygic; talimogene
laherparepvec; T - Vec; OncoVEX (GM - CSF) 4.1.2 G47Δ 4.1.3 HF10; TB - 1401 4.1.4 HSV1716; seprehvir 4.1.5 HSV - Rb - p450 4.1.6 BV - 2711 4.1.7 ONCR - 001
The FDA has approved its first oncolytic virus therapy talimogene
laherparepvec (Imlygic), a drug for the treatment of patients with melanoma lesions in the skin and lymph nodes.
The immunotherapy drugs are ipilimumab (Yervoy ®), pembrolizumab (Keytruda ®), nivolumab (Opdivo ®), and talimogene
laherparepvec (T - VEC, Imlygic ™).
A multicenter, open - label trial of talimogene
laherparepvec (T - VEC) plus pembrolizumab vs pembrolizumab monotherapy in previously untreated, unresected, stage IIIB - IV melanoma.
Responses of injected and uninjected lesions to intralesional talimogene
laherparepvec (T - VEC) in the OPTiM study and the contribution of surgery to response.
The study consists of two phases and involves two promising immunotherapy drugs: pembrolizumab and talimogene
laherparepvec (T - VEC).
Recently, it approved the first intralesional therapy, talimogene
laherparepvec (T - VEC), for the treatment of metastatic melanoma lesions in the skin and lymph nodes.
To date, the only approved intralesional therapy for metastatic melanoma is talimogene
laherparepvec (T - VEC), which has been shown to have a durable response not only in injected dermal, subcutaneous, and lymph node metastases, but also in noninjected regional metastases.
Primary overall survival from OPTiM, a randomized phase III trial of talimogene
laherparepvec (T - VEC) versus subcutaneous granulocyte - macrophage colony - stimulating factor (GM - CSF) for the treatment of unresected stage IIIB / C and IV melanoma.
Primary analysis of a phase 1b multicenter trial to evaluate safety and efficacy of talimogene
laherparepvec (T - VEC) and ipilimumab (ipi) in previously untreated, unresected stage IIIB - IV melanoma.
The combination of the attenuated oncolytic virus talimogene
laherparepvec (T - VEC) and the immune checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab shows activity and is well tolerated by advanced melanoma patients, according to a new study presented at the Society for Melanoma Research 2015 International Congress, held November 18 — 21 in San Francisco.
In October 2015 — around the same time that the FDA was granting several approvals and indication extensions to checkpoint inhibitors — the agency approved the oncolytic virus (herpes simplex virus 1)-- derived therapy talimogene
laherparepvec (T - VEC) for the treatment of melanoma lesions in the skin and lymph nodes.
Imlygic (talimogene
laherparepvec), a first - of - its - kind therapy, showed promise against lesions in the skin and lymph nodes in an early trial, the FDA said Tuesday.