Rallybio Announces Publication of Target-Mediated Drug Disposition Modeling and Simulations Informing the RLYB212 Dosing Regimen in Pregnant Women
— Dosing Regimen to be Evaluated in Recently Initiated RLYB212 Phase 2 Clinical Trial —
“Selecting a dose to ensure the safety of participants in any clinical trial is paramount, and not least for pregnant women and their developing babies. However, pharmacological research in pregnant women is limited, and few clinical pharmacology models incorporate the dynamic physiological changes during pregnancy,” said Steven Ryder, MD, Chief Medical Officer of Rallybio. “The dose regimen identified through the modeling and simulation collaboration between Rallybio and our partners at Certara
The manuscript details the target-mediated drug disposition (TMDD) model, which simultaneously characterized the pharmacokinetics of RLYB212 and introduces a novel parameter to describe the pharmacodynamics of HPA-1a-positive platelet elimination. Prior to performing dose regimen simulations, additional model parameters related to clearance, volume and intercompartmental transfer rates were incorporated into the TMDD model to account for dynamic physiological changes associated with pregnancy. The model was then used to perform simulations to inform the dosing regimen for the RLYB212 Phase 2 dose confirmation trial in pregnant women at higher risk of HPA-1a alloimmunization and FNAIT. The complete article can be accessed here.
Rallybio is developing RLYB212, a novel human monoclonal anti-HPA-1a antibody, to prevent alloimmunization in pregnant women and thereby eliminate the risk of FNAIT and its potentially devastating consequences in their fetuses and newborns. Rallybio recently announced the initiation of screening in its Phase 2 dose confirmation trial in pregnant women at higher risk for HPA-1a alloimmunization and FNAIT (2024-512651-20/NCT06435845). The Company is also conducting a non-interventional FNAIT natural history study that is designed to provide a contemporary dataset for HPA-1a alloimmunization frequency in a racially and ethnically diverse population. As of November 1, 2024, more than 13,000 pregnant women had been screened in this ongoing study.
About FNAIT
Fetal and Neonatal Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) is a potentially life-threatening rare disease that can cause uncontrolled bleeding in fetuses and newborns. FNAIT can arise during pregnancy due to an immune incompatibility between an expectant mother and her fetus in a specific platelet antigen called human platelet antigen 1, or HPA-1.
There are two predominant forms of HPA-1, known as HPA-1a and HPA-1b, which are expressed on the surface of platelets. Individuals who are homozygous for HPA-1b, meaning that they have two copies of the HPA-1b allele and no copies of the HPA-1a allele, are also known as HPA-1a negative. Upon exposure to the HPA-1a antigen, these individuals can develop antibodies to that antigen in a process known as alloimmunization. In HPA-1a-negative expectant mothers bearing a HPA-1a-positive fetus, alloimmunization can occur upon mixing of fetal blood with maternal blood. When alloimmunization occurs in an expectant mother, the anti-HPA-1a antibodies that develop in the mother can cross the placenta and destroy platelets in the fetus. The destruction of platelets in the fetus can result in severely low platelet counts, or thrombocytopenia, and potentially lead to devastating consequences including miscarriage, stillbirth, death of the newborn, or severe lifelong neurological disability in those babies who survive. There is currently no approved therapy for the prevention or prenatal treatment of FNAIT.
About Rallybio
Rallybio (NASDAQ: RLYB) is a clinical-stage biotechnology company with a mission to develop and commercialize life-transforming therapies for patients with severe and rare diseases. Rallybio has built a broad pipeline of promising product candidates aimed at addressing diseases with unmet medical need in areas of maternal fetal health, complement dysregulation, hematology, and metabolic disorders. The Company has two clinical stage programs: RLYB212, an anti-HPA-1a antibody for the prevention of fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) and RLYB116, a C5 inhibitor, with the potential to treat several diseases of complement dysregulation, as well as additional programs in preclinical development. Rallybio is headquartered in
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