MiNK Therapeutics Plans To Initiate Phase 1 Clinical Study To Evaluate Safety, Tolerability Of AgenT-797 To Treat Graft-Versus-Host Disease, Relapse, Other Post-Transplant Complications In Patients With High-Risk Leukemias

MiNK Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:INKT), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering off-the-shelf allogeneic invariant natural killer T (allo-iNKT) cell therapies, today announced the upcoming initiation of a Phase 1, investigator-sponsored clinical trial evaluating its lead therapy, agenT-797, in patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT).

The trial, led by Hongtao Liu, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, with co-investigator Kalyan V. G. Nadiminti, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, will evaluate the safety, tolerability, and preliminary efficacy of agenT-797 in reducing graft-versus-host disease (GvHD), relapse, and other post-transplant complications in patients with high-risk leukemias and other blood cancers.