BioSpectrum Asia | November 11, 2019: Rakuten Medical, Inc. (RMI) a clinical-stage, global biotechnology company with offices in the U.S., Japan, Taiwan, Germany and the Netherlands, developing precision-targeted cancer therapies based on Rakuten Medical’s Illuminox™, its proprietary, anti-cancer treatment platform, introduced new preclinical data suggesting CD25 photoimmunotherapy (PIT) treatment, combined with an anti-PD1 therapy, may stimulate the immune system, and lead to a synergistic, anti-cancer activity in targeted tumors.
“These exciting data suggests that anti-CD25 photoimmunotherapy may alter the immune tumor environment and unlock the potential of combination immunotherapies for patients living with certain types of cancers for which there are few treatment options,” said Miguel Garcia-Guzman, Ph.D., Vice Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer at Rakuten Medical. “We are committed to harnessing the full potential of the immune system through modulation of the cancer tumor environment, and these results support our clinical development program based on our anti-cancer treatment platform, Rakuten Medical’s Illuminox™.”