Dec 12, 2022
Adicet Bio Plummets After Cancer Drug Trial Disappoints Investors
Bloomberg News
,(Bloomberg) -- Adicet Bio Inc., the developer of an experimental cell therapy for cancer, lost the most in three years after an early-stage trial returned results that discouraged investors.
About a third of patients continued responding to treatment with the drug, called ADI-001, at two dose levels over six months, while data is still being collected on a third dose level, Adicet said in a statement. The shares fell as much as 47% Monday in New York, the most intraday since November 2019.
While most cell therapies have to be tailored to individual patients, Adicet is working to develop an off-the-shelf version that can be used more widely. The trial was conducted in patients with hard-to-treat forms of B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the company said.
The durability data might “dent sentiment,” Bloomberg analyst Marc Engelsgjerd wrote in a note, as experimental products from companies such as Allogene Therapeutics Inc. appear to be performing better in tests.
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