Bempegaldesleukin
Bempegaldesleukin was a re-engineered interleukin-2 meant to be a safer version of a famous old immunotherapy. It added nothing to nivolumab in three phase 3 trials.
Bempegaldesleukin is a PEGylated IL-2 prodrug biased toward the CD122 receptor to expand CD8 T cells over regulatory T cells. Phase 1/2 PIVOT-02 with nivolumab reported high response rates in melanoma. In 2022, PIVOT IO-001 (melanoma), PIVOT-09 (RCC), and PIVOT-10 (urothelial) all failed to improve response, PFS, or OS over nivolumab alone; BMS and Nektar ended the collaboration (BMS had paid $1.85B upfront in 2018).
Lesson: single-arm combination response rates in melanoma are unreliable because nivolumab alone already produces them; biological rationale (Treg sparing) did not translate.
Trials
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