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US 12,274,784 · App. 16/597,861 · Granted Apr 15, 2025

Methods for reducing side effects of immunotherapy

Inventors: Esther H. Chang (Potomac, MD); Joe B. Harford (Potomac, MD); Sang Soo Kim (Rockville, MD)
Assignees: SYNERGENE THERAPEUTICS, INC.; GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
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Patent No.
US 12,274,784
App. No.
16/597,861
Granted
Apr 15, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

This invention provides methods to overcome the current limitations of immune checkpoint immunotherapy to provide more effective methods of treating cancer. In embodiments this invention provides a means of using of p53 gene therapy to augment immune checkpoint inhibition by combining antibodies targeting immune checkpoint molecules with SGT-53, a nanomedicine carrying a plasmid encoding human wild-type p53. This invention provides means of increasing tumor immunogenicity, enhancing both innate and adaptive immune responses, and reducing tumor-induced immunosuppression, sensitizing otherwise refractory tumors to anti-immune checkpoint antibodies. In other embodiments this invention also unexpectedly reduces immune-related toxicities that are seen with immunotherapies.

Claims (19)

1. A method of treating a cancer in a patient, consisting of:

a. providing a transferrin-receptor-targeted cationic liposomal complex, comprising:

i. a cationic liposome;

ii. an anti-transferrin receptor single chain Fv (TfRscFv) complexed with the cationic liposome, but not chemically conjugated to the cationic liposome, and wherein the TfRscFv does not comprise a lipid tag; and

iii. a nucleic acid encoding p53;

b. administering intravenously only the transferrin-receptor-targeted cationic liposomal complex in combination with an immune checkpoint modulator to the patient; and

c. delivering the nucleic acid encoding p53 via the transferrin-receptor targeted cationic liposomal complex to immune cells in the patient and the immune checkpoint modulator to immune cells in the patient;

d. enhancing an innate anti-tumor immune response triggered by the immune cells of the patient; and

e. enhancing an adaptive immunity response triggered by the immune cells of the patient.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the immune checkpoint modulator is an anti-PD1 (programmed cell death-1) antibody.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the treatment also reduces a xenogeneic hypersensitivity reaction.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the transferrin-receptor -targeted cationic liposomal complex is administered in combination with the immune checkpoint modulator and a chemotherapeutic agent and/or radiation therapy to the patient to treat the cancer, and wherein the chemotherapeutic agent is selected from the group consisting of cisplatin, carboplatin, docetaxel, gemcitabine, paclitaxel, vinorelbine, and pemetrexed.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the immune checkpoint modulator is an inhibitor checkpoint modulator selected from the group consisting of adenosine A2A receptor (A2AR), B7-H3, B7-H4, B-and T-lymphocyte attenuator (BTLA), cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA-4), Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR), Lymphocyte-activation gene 3 (LAG3), programmed cell death-1 (PD-1), programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1), programmed death-ligand 2 (PD-L2), T-cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain 3 (TIM-3), V-domain Ig suppressor of T cell activation (VISTA) (protein), TIGIT (T cell Ig and ITIM domain), CD47, and Signal regulatory protein alpha (SIRPalpha).

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the immune checkpoint modulator is a stimulatory check point molecule selected from the group consisting of CD27, CD28, CD40, CD122, CD137, OX40, glucocorticoid-induced tumor necrosis factor receptor-related protein (GITR), and inducible costimulator of T cells (ICOS).

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the cancer is a primary or metastatic brain tumor, a breast cancer, a neuroendocrine tumor, a melanoma, a pancreatic cancer, a prostate cancer, a head and neck cancer, an ovarian cancer, a lung cancer, a bladder cancer, a kidney cancer, a liver cancer, a vaginal cancer, a urogenital cancer, a gastric cancer, a colorectal cancer, a cervical cancer, a liposarcoma, an angiosarcoma, a rhabdomyosarcoma, a choriocarcinoma, a retinoblastoma, and a multiple myeloma.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the breast cancer is a primary or metastatic breast cancer, an inflammatory breast cancer, a Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS), invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) including IDC Type: Tubular Carcinoma of the Breast, IDC Type: Medullary Carcinoma of the Breast, IDC Type:

Mucinous Carcinoma of the Breast, IDC Type: Papillary Carcinoma of the Breast, IDC Type: Cribriform Carcinoma of the Breast, as well as Invasive Lobular Carcinoma (ILC), Lobular Carcinoma In Situ (LCIS), Male Breast Cancer, Molecular Subtypes of Breast Cancer, Paget's Disease of the Nipple, Phyllodes Tumors of the Breast, and Metastatic Breast Cancer.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein the breast cancer is an inflammatory breast cancer.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the patient is undergoing treatment for an immune related disease.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 29, 2020
From: HARFORD, JOE B.; KIM, SANG SOO
To: SYNERGENE THERAPEUTICS, INC.
Reel/Frame 051733/0420 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 29, 2020
From: CHANG, ESTHER H.
To: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Reel/Frame 051733/0423 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62745217 · Oct 12, 2018
Related Publication 20200113829A1 · Apr 16, 2020
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