5 results on '"Colby S. Shemesh"'
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2. Pharmacology-based ranking of anti-cancer drugs to guide clinical development of cancer immunotherapy combinations
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Vincent Lemaire, Colby S. Shemesh, and Anand Rotte
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Clinical trials ,Cancer immunotherapy ,Combination development ,Cancer ,Pharmacology ,Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens ,RC254-282 - Abstract
Abstract The success of antibodies targeting Programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) and its ligand L1 (PD-L1) in cancer treatment and the need for improving response rates has led to an increased demand for the development of combination therapies with anti-PD-1/PD-L1 blockers as a backbone. As more and more drugs with translational potential are identified, the number of clinical trials evaluating combinations has increased considerably and the demand to prioritize combinations having potential for success over the ones that are unlikely to be successful is rising. This review aims to address the unmet need to prioritize cancer immunotherapy combinations through comprehensive search of potential drugs and ranking them based on their mechanism of action, clinical efficacy and safety. As lung cancer is one of the most frequently studied cancer types, combinations that showed potential for the treatment of lung cancer were prioritized. A literature search was performed to identify drugs with potential in combination with PD-1/PD-L1 blockers and the drugs were ranked based on their mechanism of action and known clinical efficacy. Nineteen drugs or drug classes were identified from an internal list of lead molecules and were scored for their clinical potential. Efficacy and safety data from pivotal studies was summarized for the selected drugs. Further, overlap of mechanisms of action and adverse events was visualized using a heat map illustration to help screen drugs for combinations. The quantitative scoring methodology provided in this review could serve as a template for preliminary ranking of novel combinations.
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- 2021
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3. Development of a pediatric physiologically-based pharmacokinetic model to support recommended dosing of atezolizumab in children with solid tumors
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Weize Huang, Felix Stader, Phyllis Chan, Colby S. Shemesh, Yuan Chen, Katherine L. Gill, Hannah M. Jones, Linzhong Li, Gianluca Rossato, Benjamin Wu, Jin Y. Jin, and Pascal Chanu
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alveolar soft part sarcoma ,atezolizumab ,physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling ,pediatric extrapolation ,pediatric oncology ,solid tumor ,Therapeutics. Pharmacology ,RM1-950 - Abstract
Background: Atezolizumab has been studied in multiple indications for both pediatric and adult patient populations. Generally, clinical studies enrolling pediatric patients may not collect sufficient pharmacokinetic data to characterize the drug exposure and disposition because of operational, ethical, and logistical challenges including burden to children and blood sample volume limitations. Therefore, mechanistic modeling and simulation may serve as a tool to predict and understand the drug exposure in pediatric patients.Objective: To use mechanistic physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling to predict atezolizumab exposure at a dose of 15 mg/kg (max 1,200 mg) in pediatric patients to support dose rationalization and label recommendations.Methods: A minimal mechanistic PBPK model was used which incorporated age-dependent changes in physiology and biochemistry that are related to atezolizumab disposition such as endogenous IgG concentration and lymph flow. The PBPK model was developed using both in vitro data and clinically observed data in adults and was verified across dose levels obtained from a phase I and multiple phase III studies in both pediatric patients and adults. The verified model was then used to generate PK predictions for pediatric and adult subjects ranging from 2- to 29-year-old.Results: Individualized verification in children and in adults showed that the simulated concentrations of atezolizumab were comparable (76% within two-fold and 90% within three-fold, respectively) to the observed data with no bias for either over- or under-prediction. Applying the verified model, the predicted exposure metrics including Cmin, Cmax, and AUCtau were consistent between pediatric and adult patients with a geometric mean of pediatric exposure metrics between 0.8- to 1.25-fold of the values in adults.Conclusion: The results show that a 15 mg/kg (max 1,200 mg) atezolizumab dose administered intravenously in pediatric patients provides comparable atezolizumab exposure to a dose of 1,200 mg in adults. This suggests that a dose of 15 mg/kg will provide adequate and effective atezolizumab exposure in pediatric patients from 2- to 18-year-old.
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- 2022
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4. Atezolizumab Plus PEGPH20 Versus Chemotherapy in Advanced Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma and Gastric Cancer: MORPHEUS Phase Ib/II Umbrella Randomized Study Platform
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Andrew H Ko, Kyu-Pyo Kim, Jens T Siveke, Charles D Lopez, Jill Lacy, Eileen M O’Reilly, Teresa Macarulla, Gulam A Manji, Jeeyun Lee, Jaffer Ajani, Maria Alsina Maqueda, Sun-Young Rha, Janet Lau, Nedal Al-Sakaff, Simon Allen, Danny Lu, Colby S Shemesh, Xinxin Gan, Edward Cha, and Do-Youn Oh
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Cancer Research ,Oncology - Abstract
BackgroundThe MORPHEUS platform comprises multiple open-label, randomized, phase Ib/II trials designed to identify early efficacy and safety signals of treatment combinations across cancers. Atezolizumab (anti-programmed cell death 1 ligand 1 [PD-L1]) was evaluated in combination with PEGylated recombinant human hyaluronidase (PEGPH20).MethodsIn 2 randomized MORPHEUS trials, eligible patients with advanced, previously treated pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) or gastric cancer (GC) received atezolizumab plus PEGPH20, or control treatment (mFOLFOX6 or gemcitabine plus nab-paclitaxel [MORPHEUS-PDAC]; ramucirumab plus paclitaxel [MORPHEUS-GC]). Primary endpoints were objective response rates (ORR) per RECIST 1.1 and safety.ResultsIn MORPHEUS-PDAC, ORRs with atezolizumab plus PEGPH20 (n = 66) were 6.1% (95% CI, 1.68%-14.80%) vs. 2.4% (95% CI, 0.06%-12.57%) with chemotherapy (n = 42). In the respective arms, 65.2% and 61.9% had grade 3/4 adverse events (AEs); 4.5% and 2.4% had grade 5 AEs. In MORPHEUS-GC, confirmed ORRs with atezolizumab plus PEGPH20 (n = 13) were 0% (95% CI, 0%-24.7%) vs. 16.7% (95% CI, 2.1%-48.4%) with control (n = 12). Grade 3/4 AEs occurred in 30.8% and 75.0% of patients, respectively; no grade 5 AEs occurred.ConclusionAtezolizumab plus PEGPH20 showed limited clinical activity in patients with PDAC and none in patients with GC. The safety of atezolizumab plus PEGPH20 was consistent with each agent’s known safety profile. (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03193190 and NCT03281369).
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- 2023
5. Pharmacology-based ranking of anti-cancer drugs to guide clinical development of cancer immunotherapy combinations
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Colby S. Shemesh, Vincent Lemaire, and Anand Rotte
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Drug ,Cancer Research ,media_common.quotation_subject ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Antineoplastic Agents ,Cancer immunotherapy ,Review ,Treatment of lung cancer ,Bioinformatics ,Clinical trials ,Neoplasms ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,Combination development ,Lung cancer ,Adverse effect ,RC254-282 ,Cancer ,media_common ,Pharmacology ,business.industry ,Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens ,medicine.disease ,Clinical trial ,Pharmaceutical Preparations ,Oncology ,Mechanism of action ,Drug Therapy, Combination ,Immunotherapy ,medicine.symptom ,business - Abstract
The success of antibodies targeting Programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) and its ligand L1 (PD-L1) in cancer treatment and the need for improving response rates has led to an increased demand for the development of combination therapies with anti-PD-1/PD-L1 blockers as a backbone. As more and more drugs with translational potential are identified, the number of clinical trials evaluating combinations has increased considerably and the demand to prioritize combinations having potential for success over the ones that are unlikely to be successful is rising. This review aims to address the unmet need to prioritize cancer immunotherapy combinations through comprehensive search of potential drugs and ranking them based on their mechanism of action, clinical efficacy and safety. As lung cancer is one of the most frequently studied cancer types, combinations that showed potential for the treatment of lung cancer were prioritized. A literature search was performed to identify drugs with potential in combination with PD-1/PD-L1 blockers and the drugs were ranked based on their mechanism of action and known clinical efficacy. Nineteen drugs or drug classes were identified from an internal list of lead molecules and were scored for their clinical potential. Efficacy and safety data from pivotal studies was summarized for the selected drugs. Further, overlap of mechanisms of action and adverse events was visualized using a heat map illustration to help screen drugs for combinations. The quantitative scoring methodology provided in this review could serve as a template for preliminary ranking of novel combinations. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13046-021-02111-5.
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- 2021
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