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Garching / Munich, October 27, 2022 

ITM Isotope Technologies Munich SE (ITM), a leading radiopharmaceutical biotech company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the company Fast Track designation for ITM-11 (n.c.a. 177Lu-edotreotide), an investigational radiopharmaceutical for the treatment of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs). ITM-11 is being evaluated as a Targeted Radionuclide Therapy in two phase III clinical trials, COMPETE and COMPOSE.

The FDA Fast Track is a process designed to facilitate the development and expedite the review of drugs to treat serious conditions and address an unmet medical need. The purpose is to bring new and promising medicines to patients sooner. The Fast Track designation enables ITM to have more frequent interactions with the FDA to discuss the ITM-11 development path. It also allows rolling review of the new drug application (NDA) for ITM-11, when submitted. The rolling submission will allow ITM to submit completed sections of an application for review by FDA, rather than wait until all sections are completed.

COMPETE – low grade 1 and 2 NET
COMPOSE – aggressive grade 2 and 3 NET

Update 22 Jan 2022. 

ITM Isotope Technologies Munich SE (ITM), today announced that the first patient has been treated in its second pivotal phase III clinical trial, COMPOSE (NCT04919226), evaluating the company’s lead radiopharmaceutical candidate, ITM-11 (n.c.a. 177Lu-edotreotide), for the treatment of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs). ITM-11 is a Targeted Radionuclide Therapeutic consisting of the high-quality radioisotope no-carrier-added lutetium-177 (n.c.a. 177Lu) fused with a somatostatin analogue to specifically target somatostatin receptor-positive (SSTR+) GEP-NETs.

The trial design of COMPOSE was presented at the 2022 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium (ASCO-GI). 

Brief Summary of the COMPOSE trial

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Graphic courtesy of ITM – clinical trial sites as of 14 Oct 2021

This is an Open-label, Multicentre Study. Its purpose is to evaluate the efficacy, safety & patient-reported outcomes of peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) with 177Lu-Edotreotide as 1st or 2nd line of treatment compared to best standard of care in patients with well-differentiated aggressive grade 2 and grade 3, somatostatin receptor-positive (SSTR+), neuroendocrine tumours of gastroenteric or pancreatic origin. The standard of care comparison is based on either CAPTEM or everolimus or FOLFOX in patients with advanced grade 2 or grade 3 GEP-NETs.

So, this trial is focused on more aggressive tumours, which is great news. 

Theranostic pairing from ITM – TOCscan®

68Ga-Edotreotide (ITM14D) is the Ga68 PET radionuclide from ITM for true theranostic pairing with the SOLUCIN PRRT.  See here.

You may have access to this scan during the trial, but it’s currently limited to certain countries – see here

References:

1.  ITM Website – click here

2. COMPOSE Clinical Trials Document – click here

3. COMPOSE Phase 2 resultsclick here

Bonus read – my interview with ITM for their staff newsletter

click here or on the picture

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ENETS 2018, meeting Dr Jonathan Strosberg at the ITM Breakout Session

OK that is the COMPOSE trial, what about COMPETE?

While COMPOSE is evaluating ITM-11 for the treatment of well-differentiated high (ki67) grade 2 and grade 3 GEP-NETs, the radiopharmaceutical is also being investigated in ITM’s ongoing pivotal phase III trial, COMPETE (NCT03049189), in patients with grade 1 and low (ki67) grade 2 GEP-NETs. 

I’ve written about this product before.  It’s a synthetic, low-energy beta-emitting isotope of Lutetium 177 (a radioactive component already used within an approved product called Lutathera).  Attaching the radiopharmaceutical Solucin® it’s administered as an intravenous infusion, specifically targeting and destroying the tumor cells with ionizing radiation, i.e. it works in exactly the same way as conventional PRRT.  Read more by clicking this link plus news of an existing trial in Phase 3 – Phase 3 Clinical Trial of 177Lu-Edotreotide (Solucin®) – COMPETE for GEPNETs

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