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Technology Platform

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Technology Overview

AlveoGene InGenuiTy™ technology includes a proprietary and validated next-generation lentiviral delivery platform originally developed by the GTC specifically targeted for the treatment of respiratory diseases with high unmet need.1

Unlike may current gene therapy approaches, which require administration via IV bolus, respiratory gene therapies developed using the InGenuiTy™ platform can be delivered through a nebuliser, directly targeting the lung.  This facilitates the transduction of the lung epithelial cells with high efficiency, providing a long duration of action and sustaining these effects following repeated administration, if required.

AlveoGene also benefits from a comprehensive and interlinked IP estate with more than 10 patent families and reach through 2042.  It is further underpinned by significant know-how, particularly in the scalable manufacturing processes for its viral vectors.

1 Excluding the use of the CFTR gene, which is mutated in cystic fibrosis

Key Differentiators and benefits of AlveoGene's proprietary lentivirus platform include:

  • Specially designed for targeted high transduction efficiency across respiratory epithelium and all types of lung cells​
  • Demonstrated in multiple in-vivo models and ex-vivo human tissue
  • Can carry high payloads of transgene to aid effective dosing
  • Stable transgene expression over extended period in murine models evidences basis for extended duration of action
  • Strong evidence of good pre-clinical safety profile; no evidence of mutagenesis or non-target tissue transduction
  • Delivered by standard nebulization techniques using stable formulations with no loss of potency throughout delivery cycle
  • Scalable manufacturing process demonstrated

Manufacturing Overview

  • rSIV.F/HN vector production is scalable
  • Vector has large packaging capacity (>10 kb) and allows the facile introduction of other transgenes for other indications
  • State-of-the-art innate safety features being replication incompetent
  • Animal component free
  • Scalable cGMP manufacture already developed for an upcoming cystic fibrosis clinical trial1
  • Manufacturing AATD product at scale expected to follow a similar course

REF 1: North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference 2022: NACFC 2022 | S01: Design of Clinical Trials to Evaluate Nucleotide-Based Interventions – YouTube: Talk 4 (EW Alton)

Key Publications

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NACFC 2022 | S01: Design of Clinical Trials to Evaluate Nucleotide-Based Interventions - YouTube

North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference 2022
Talk 4 (EW Alton)

CpG-free plasmids confer reduced inflammation and sustained pulmonary gene expression

Hyde SC, Pringle IA, Abdullah S, Lawton AE, Davies LA, Varathalingam A, Nunez-Alonso G, Green AM, Bazzani RP, Sumner-Jones SG, Chan M, Li H, Yew NS, Cheng SH, Boyd AC, Davies JC, Griesenbach U, Porteous DJ, Sheppard DN, Munkonge FM, Alton EW, Gill DR.

Nature Biotechnology. 2008; 26:549-551

Correction of a chronic pulmonary disease through lentiviral vector-mediated protein expression.

Helena Lund-Palau, Claudia Ivette Juarez-Molina, Cuixiang Meng, Anushka Bhargava, Aikaterini Pilou, Kiran Aziz, Nora Clarke, Naoko Atsumi, Ali Ashek, Michael R Wilson, Masao Takata, Simon Padley, Deborah R Gill, Stephen C Hyde, Cliff Morgan, Eric W F W Alton, Uta Griesenbach

Mol Ther Methods Clin Dev. 2022 Apr 14;25:382-391. doi: 10.1016/j.omtm.2022.04.002. eCollection 2022 Jun 9.

Lung-targeting lentiviral vector for passive immunisation against influenza.

Tiong Kit Tan, Toby P E Gamlen, Pramila Rijal, Alain R Townsend, Deborah R Gill , Stephen C Hyde
Thorax. 2020 Dec;75(12):1112-1115. doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-214656. Epub 2020 Sep 3

Assessment of F/HN-pseudotyped lentivirus as a clinically relevant vector for lung gene therapy.

Griesenbach U et al., American Journal Of Respiratory And Critical Care Medicine
Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2012 Nov 1;186(9):846-56. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201206-1056OC. Epub 2012 Sep 6.

Repeated nebulisation of non-viral CFTR gene therapy in patients with cystic fibrosis: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2b trial.

Alton EW et al., The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
Lancet Respir Med. 2015 Sep;3(9):684-91. doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(15)00245-3. Epub 2015 Jul 3.