Rakuten Medical Presented Research Results
Rakuten Medical, Inc., a global biotechnology company developing and commercializing precision, cell-targeting therapies based on its proprietary Alluminox™ platform, today announces that the research results of the preclinical studies for PD-L1-targeted photoimmunotherapy were presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cancer Association (JCA2024) in Fukuoka, Japan on September 20, 2024 (JST). The key findings presented at JCA2024 Abstract Title: PD-L1 photoimmunotherapy kills immunosuppressive myeloid cells to activate local and systemic antitumor immunity Presenter: Amy H. Thorne, Ph.D. (Rakuten Medical, Inc.) Abstract Number: 30050 It has been observed in in vitro studies that this photoimmunotherapy has a dual mechanism of action (MoA): depletion of PD-L1 expressing tumor cells and depletion of PD-L1 expressing immunosuppressive cells such as tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) and myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs). In addition to this dual MoA, the potential for systemic immune checkpoint inhibition was…

