Navidea Biopharmaceuticals Announces Presentation of Results from its Two Phase 2B Clinical Trials in Rheumatoid Arthritis at Upcoming American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting
Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE American: NAVB) announced that it will present results from its NAV3-31 and NAV3-32 Phase 2B clinical studies at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting from November 10-14, 2022. The NAV3-31 study demonstrated that Tc99m tilmanocept imaging accurately predicts clinical response in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients on anti-TNFα therapy, achieving high specificity and predictive value. Preliminary results from the NAV3-32 study indicate a correlation between TIL uptake and macrophage involvement, potentially aiding personalized treatment decisions for RA patients.
- NAV3-31 study shows Tc99m tilmanocept imaging predicts clinical response with high specificity (0.96) and predictive values (positive predictive value: 0.75).
- Preliminary NAV3-32 results suggest TIL uptake correlates with macrophage involvement, aiding personalized RA treatment.
- Potential for TIL imaging to provide a non-invasive method for early assessment of RA treatment efficacy.
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In the completed NAV3-31 Phase 2B study (NCT03938636) titled “Evaluation of the Precision and Sensitivity of Tilmanocept Uptake Value (TUV) on Tc99m Tilmanocept Planar Imaging” (Abstract #1977), 30 rheumatoid arthritis (“RA”) patients with active RA set to start anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha (“TNFα”) therapy were enrolled and followed for 24 weeks. Tc99m tilmanocept (“TIL”) imaging performed at baseline and week 5 following therapy initiation had high overall accuracy at predicting
In the ongoing NAV3-32 Phase 2B study (NCT04078191) titled, “A Comparison of Tc99m Tilmanocept Quantitative Imaging With Immunohistochemical (IHC) Analysis of CD206 Expression in Synovial Tissue From Subjects Clinically Diagnosed With Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)” (Abstract #1979), the primary objective is to assess the relationship between joint-specific TIL uptake and the pathobiology of RA-involved joint tissue. Preliminary results on the first eleven patients indicates that quantitative TIL uptake in the hands and wrists of patients is proportional to the amount of macrophage involvement in an individual RA patient’s joint inflammation. The cellular composition of RA-inflamed joints is known to vary between patients and is frequently separated into one of three pathotypes: fibroid, diffuse myeloid, and lympho-myeloid. Knowledge of an individual RA patient’s pathotype may be clinically important because it may predict to which RA therapy a patient is likely to respond. Imaging with TIL, a high affinity ligand to CD206 expressed on activated macrophages, offers the potential to distinguish between pathotypes without need of invasive biopsy. In these preliminary results, TIL uptake in RA-inflamed joints was able to discretely differentiate patients with the fibroid pathotype (i.e., low macrophage involvement) from those having either the diffuse myeloid or lympho-myeloid pathotypes of RA (i.e., higher macrophage involvement). This could have significant implications for decision making onto which therapy a patient is placed.
Overall, data from these two studies supports the hypothesis that TIL imaging has the potential to provide rheumatologists and those suffering with RA a noninvasive, quantifiable, early indicator of whether or not an anti-TNFα treatment is working or likely to work. This could bring significant benefit to these patients by assisting physicians in putting them on the right course of treatment earlier than is currently possible.
Abstracts and presentation session information can be found on the ACR Annual Meeting website at:
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1. https://www.rheumatoidarthritis.org/ra/facts-and-statistics/
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