July 21, 2025 -- Further to our announcement filed on Form 6-K on November 20, 2024, CytoMed Therapeutics Limited (NASDAQ: GDTC) (“CytoMed” or “Company”), a Singapore-based clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on harnessing its proprietary technologies to develop novel donor blood-derived, cell-based allogeneic therapies for the affordable treatment of blood and solid cancers, is pleased to announce the successful completion of dose level 1 for its first-in-human Phase I dose-escalation clinical trial (NCT05302037) (“ANGELICA Trial”) for four late stage cancer patients and is scheduled to start dose level 2 of the ANGELICA Trial in third quarter of 2025.
The ANGELICA Trial evaluates the safety and tolerability of allogeneic NKG2DL-targeting chimeric antigen receptor-grafted (CAR) gamma delta T cells (CTM-N2D) in the treatment of a basket of cancer indications that include advanced solid and haematological malignancies. Refer to our announcement on Form 6K on October 7, 2024 for more information regarding the ANGELICA Trial.
CTM-N2D uses a subtype of T cells known as gamma delta T cells which are derived from healthy donors, which are expanded and modified to express CAR that targets NKG2DL that are commonly present in many cancers. CTM-N2D can be infused into patients without the need for donor-patient compatibility matching.
This differs from conventional CAR-αβ T cell therapies that typically involve the collection of patient’s own blood cells and modifying these cells to express cancer-targeting CARs. The modified αβ T cells are then re-infused back into the patient to target and kill cancer cells. Unlike chemotherapy that targets all actively dividing cells including healthy ones, CAR-T cells specifically recognize targets (antigen) present on cancer cells to kill them.
Incorporated in 2018, CytoMed was spun off from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore’s leading research and development agency in the public sector. CytoMed is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on harnessing its licensed proprietary technologies, namely gamma delta T cell and iPSC-derived gamma delta Natural Killer T cell, to create novel cell-based allogeneic immunotherapies for the treatment of various human cancers. The development of novel technologies has been inspired by the clinical success of existing CAR-T therapies in treating haematological malignancies, as well as the current clinical limitations and commercial challenges in extrapolating the CAR-T principle into the treatment of solid tumors.
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