Cancer by the Numbers
Estimated number of people in the U.S. living with metastatic lung, breast, and prostate cancer
Syncromune is currently focused on developing therapies for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer, metastatic breast cancer, and metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. There is a large unmet need, as currently most metastatic solid tumor cancers are incurable.
Source: DelveInsight. Market Insight, Epidemiology, and Market Forecast – 2032.. mCRPC & mBC prevalence, US mNSCLC annual deaths, OUS mNSCLC incidence. Published September 2023.
The Challenge
Cancer has many mechanisms and ways to avoid, overwhelm, and suppress the immune system. If only one or two of those mechanisms are targeted by a drug or therapy, cancer can compensate and use other means to overcome the immune system. Currently, responses to immunotherapy vary by cancer type, and on average, only 15% to 30% of patients with solid tumors respond to single-target IV immunotherapy1, largely because of the multi-faceted immunosuppressive abilities of cancer.
Ideally, combining two or more drugs could result in improved patient outcomes, but the combination of systemic IV immunotherapies thus far in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) trials and other treatment-resistant cancers have demonstrated limited benefit with high toxicities, adverse events, and discontinuation rates due to lack of tolerability 2,3.
Given the complex and multifactorial nature of the mechanisms mediating tumor immune evasion in mCRPC and other metastatic solid tumor cancers, it is becoming increasingly clear that new cancer immunotherapies need to implement a combination of numerous therapeutic agents that elicit multiple immuno-pharmacologic effects while also minimizing systemic autoimmune side effects.
A Bold New Approach to Treating Metastatic Cancer
Thinking outside the box to fight incurable cancers
SYNC-T: A Novel Combination Multi-Target Approach
The SYNC-T Therapy Platform is Designed to:
- Provide a personalized in situ cancer vaccine for tumor antigen recognition
- Utilize a multi-target approach to address multiple immune suppression mechanisms simultaneously
- Employ locoregional targeting that allows for lower dose administration, high local concentrations, less systemic exposure, and reduced toxicity
- Focus on reversing immune suppression in the tumor microenvironment (TME) and tumor draining lymph nodes to create systemic anti-tumor immunity and defend with immune memory
SYNC-T Animation: How it Works
Pipeline
Our current pipeline focuses on developing the SYNC-T platform therapy for metastatic solid tumor cancers. You can learn more about SYNC-T trials HERE.
Key Scientific Presentations & Publications
Syncromune is committed to advancing science and developing cancer therapies to leverage the full potential of combination multi-target approaches. We strive to publish our trials as well as investigator-initiated work in peer-reviewed journals and present our data at medical congresses to contribute to furthering cancer research.
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2024 Annual Meeting | April 7, 2024 | Presentation
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2024 Annual Meeting | April 5-10, 2024 | Poster Abstract
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2024 Annual Meeting | April 7, 2024 | Presentation
Link, C.J. (2024, April 5-10). Systemic responses to SYNC-T therapy: in situ personalized cancer vaccination with intratumoral infusion of multi-target immunotherapy in patients with metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). In Ecaterina Dubrava & Ulka N. Vaishampayan (Chairs), Cancer Vaccines: Ready for Prime Time? [Conference presentation]. AACR 2024, San Diego, CA, United States.
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2024 Annual Meeting | April 5-10, 2024 | Poster Abstract
James B. DuHadaway, Alexander J. Muller, Lisa D. Laury-Kleintop, U. Margaretha Wallon, Susan K. Gilmour, Marie Webster, Jason R. Williams, Gabriela R. Rossi, Mario R. Mautino, Jonathan Lewis, Charles J. Link, George C. Prendergast. Cryo-immune vaccination (CIV) by SYNC-T therapy: Preclinical modeling of a novel device-multidrug immunotherapeutic approach to eradicate advanced metastatic cancers [poster abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2024; Part 2 (Late-Breaking, Clinical Trial, and Invited Abstracts); 2024 Apr 5-10; San Diego, CA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2024;84(7_Suppl):Abstract nr LB355.
REFERENCES
- Sharma P, Pachynski RK, Narayan V, Fléchon A, Gravis G, Galsky MD, Mahammedi H, Patnaik A, Subudhi SK, Ciprotti M, Simsek B, Saci A, Hu Y, Han GC, Fizazi K. Nivolumab Plus Ipilimumab for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: Preliminary Analysis of Patients in the CheckMate 650 Trial. Cancer Cell. 2020 Oct 12;38(4):489-499.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2020.08.007. Epub 2020 Sep 10. PMID: 32916128.
- Shenderov E, Boudadi K, Fu W, et al. Nivolumab plus ipilimumab, with or without enzalutamide, in AR-V7-expressing metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: A phase-2 nonrandomized clinical trial. Prostate. 2021 May;81(6):326-338. doi: 10.1002/pros.24110. Epub 2021 Feb 26. PMID: 33636027; PMCID: PMC8018565.
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