We are carrying out trials in adults with drug resistant hairy cell leukemia and in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. In a phase 1 trial in adults in which Robert Kreitman is the principal investigator, we have found that an intravenous dose of 50 ug//Kg is safe and has produced more than a 50% complete remissions in Hairy Cell Leukemia. Based on this data the FDA has given permission for a pivotal trial to open and 7 patients have now been treated. In ALL the phase 1 trial is completed. In some patients complete remissions have been observed on this regimen. We have completed a phase 1 trial with SS1P in which Raffit Hassan is the principal investigator. In this trial SS1P was given with permetrexed/cis platinum, the standard mesothelin therapy;the response rate in this trial is higher that the published responses observed with chemotherapy alone. A randomized phase 2 trial to confirm this finding is being planned. Because SS1P is immunogenic and neutralizing antibodies usually form after 1 treatment cycle, we have carried out a trial in which SS1P is combined with 2 immunosuppressive drugs, pentostatin and cytoxan in patients who have failed standard therapy for mesothelioma. We have been able to give additional cycles to these patients and in addition have observed several major and durable anti-tumor responses. This trial is now being expanded. In collaboration with Jay Berzofsky, we have carried out a study in prostate cancer with a vaccine directed at the TARP protein. A beneficial effect was observed and a new trial is being planned. Manuscript is in preparation. In collaboration with Steven Rosenberg, we are testing a CAR targeting mesothelin in mesothelin-expressing cancers.
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| Hassan, Raffit; Alewine, Christine; Pastan, Ira (2016) New Life for Immunotoxin Cancer Therapy. Clin Cancer Res 22:1055-8 |
| Hassan, Raffit; Thomas, Anish; Alewine, Christine et al. (2016) Mesothelin Immunotherapy for Cancer: Ready for Prime Time? J Clin Oncol 34:4171-4179 |
| Bao, Xuhui; Pastan, Ira; Bigner, Darell D et al. (2016) EGFR/EGFRvIII-targeted immunotoxin therapy for the treatment of glioblastomas via convection-enhanced delivery. Receptors Clin Investig 3: |
| Pastan, Ira; Hassan, Raffit (2014) Discovery of mesothelin and exploiting it as a target for immunotherapy. Cancer Res 74:2907-12 |
| Sharon, Elad; Zhang, Jingli; Hollevoet, Kevin et al. (2012) Serum mesothelin and megakaryocyte potentiating factor in pancreatic and biliary cancers. Clin Chem Lab Med 50:721-5 |
| Kelly, Ronan J; Sharon, Elad; Pastan, Ira et al. (2012) Mesothelin-targeted agents in clinical trials and in preclinical development. Mol Cancer Ther 11:517-25 |
| Kreitman, Robert J; Tallman, Martin S; Robak, Tadeusz et al. (2012) Phase I trial of anti-CD22 recombinant immunotoxin moxetumomab pasudotox (CAT-8015 or HA22) in patients with hairy cell leukemia. J Clin Oncol 30:1822-8 |
| Mehta, Ankit I; Choi, Bryan D; Ajay, Divya et al. (2012) Convection enhanced delivery of macromolecules for brain tumors. Curr Drug Discov Technol 9:305-10 |
| Mehta, Ankit I; Choi, Bryan D; Raghavan, Raghu et al. (2011) Imaging of convection enhanced delivery of toxins in humans. Toxins (Basel) 3:201-6 |
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