Cambridge, MA, April 8, 2017 -- Aurora BioPharma, Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company developing a breakthrough in cancer treatment, announced today that company CEO and President, Robert Brooks, will join in on a presentation and discussion of the GBM AGILE (Adaptive, Global, Innovative, Learning Environment) trial. The meeting is being held at the Ritz Carlton, at Fashion Centre at Pentagon City, April 11th.
GBM AGILE is being developed through the National Biomarker Development Alliance (NBDA), a non-profit organization created as part of the Research Collaboratory at Arizona State University (ASU). The NBDA's mission is to collaboratively create standards-based, end-to-end systems solutions for biomarker discovery, development and delivery to advance precision medicine. The NBDA operates through trans-disciplinary and trans-sector networks to develop new research networks and consortia that focus on "demonstration projects" that advance all aspects of biomarker research and applications - especially developing smarter and more efficient clinical trials. Although NBDA is generally disease agnostic, rare diseases like GBM are a focus for the Alliance since in most cases few if any biomarkers exist and most clinical trials fail. Overall, the NBDA is dedicated to moving high quality, effective biomarkers through all phases of discovery, development and validation through more innovative and efficient clinical trials to ensure that the promise of precision (molecularly based) medicine will be available to all patients.
Aurora is leading in the development of Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T therapy, with an extensive clinical pipeline. Osteosarcoma is the most common type of bone cancer in Children and Adolescents, even after radical amputation of a limb and chemotherapy, survival is poor. A completed Phase I/IIa trial in 19 Sarcoma (16 Osteosarcoma) patients was completed, Aurora's CAR T agent AU-101 met its endpoints of safety, with strong signs of tumor killing efficacy, and long term survivors. Glioblastoma is the most common and deadliest form of brain cancer. Aurora's CAR T agent AU105 showed in a completed Phase I/IIa clinical trial in 16 Glioblastoma patients, safety, tumor killing efficacy, and double the median historic overall survival. Aurora is planning a randomized multi-site Phase II trial of AU105 in Early Diagnosed Glioblastoma, and a Phase I/II trial in Recurrent Glioblastoma with intracranial injection. Aurora is planning a Phase II trial of its CAR T Cell therapy AU105 in Osteosarcoma.
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