There are four core elements to our development philosophy for INKmune™:

1. INKmune™ is being developed to treat residual disease.  This means patients will have completed their initial cancer therapy (surgery, radiation and/or chemotherapy) and will have a low burden of disease with a high risk of relapse.
2. Patients will receive multiple doses of INKmune™.  To be effective, immunotherapies require repeated dosing over months.  In our initial clinical trials, patients will receive three months of therapy.  This time period may be extended in the future.
3. Phase I trials is designed to show safety, evidence of “proof-of-biology” and determine an optimal dose to move in to Phase II “proof-of-concept” clinical trials.  Proof-of-biology is a biomarker strategy to determine whether INKmune™ is having the effect on the patient’s immune system that we expect.  We have developed a set of assays that allows us to assess in INKmune™ is priming the patient’s NK cells and if those primed NK cells can now kill tumor cells.  These biomarkers allow us to manage risk by more precisely choosing the proper dose of INKmune™ for Phase II trials and show that the pre-clinical biology is translating faithfully to the clinic.
4. Precision medicine approach to patient selection for INKmune™ therapy will decrease the risk and increase the efficiency of the development process.  INmune Bio has developed biomarker assays that allow us to monitor the biology of INKmune™ therapy.  The assays allow us to demonstrate priming the NK cells and killing of a tumor line by the primed NK cells.  There are two advantages to this precision medicine approach.  First, it improves patient selection.  We will only select patients for the clinical trial whose NK cells will respond to INKmune™ therapy.  Second, we can monitor the patient’s response to INKmune™ therapy.  These assays are designed to predict a positive clinical response to INKmune™ therapy, but this must be verified in clinical trials.
5. Finally, central to our philosophy is DELIVERABILITY. INKmune™ has been developed to be stable at -80^oC so it can be shipped easily, cheaply, and stored in conventional pharmacy freezers in hospitals for immediate, off-the-shelf use. INKmune™ is not a patient-specific therapy requiring complex timing and expensive logistics.