Jeffrey Cohen, MD, professor of neurology and staff physician at the Cleveland Clinic Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis, discusses interim BREAKFREE-2 findings for zola-cel, a CD19-directed CAR T cell therapy, in relapsing and progressive MS.
At a NeurologyLive Clinical Forum in New York, Mary Ann Piccone, MD, of Holy Name Medical Center, led a wide-ranging discussion among MS specialists on the limits of current high-efficacy therapies, the pipeline of emerging agents, and the gap between physician and patient treatment priorities.
Interim phase 1b data showed that cizutamig produced rapid, sustained improvement in generalized myasthenia gravis with no cases of cytokine release syndrome.
Newly presented biomarker and clinical findings from the phase 2b PARADIGM trial of PrimeC informed the design of the global phase 3 PARAGON trial in ALS.
Two-year data from the phase 2 DAZALS trial showed a lower risk of death with dazucorilant 300 mg/day vs placebo in ALS, although the study did not meet its functional primary end point.
QurAlis reported interim ANQUR trial results showing target engagement, a biomarker signal, and a trend toward slower functional decline with QRL-201 in ALS.
uniQure presented final safety and biomarker results from the discontinued EPISOD1 trial of AMT-162, an investigational gene therapy for SOD1-associated ALS.