Tr1X Awarded $8 Million CIRM Grant to Support TRX103 Phase 1/2a Clinical Trial for Graft-Versus-Host Disease

SAN DIEGO, April 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tr1X, Inc. (pronounced "Trix"), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing first-in-class allogeneic engineered Treg and CAR-Treg cell therapies with the potential to cure autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, today announced that the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has awarded the Company an $8 million grant to support its ongoing Phase 1/2a clinical trial of TRX103, an engineered Tr1 Treg cell therapy for use in the prevention of graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) in blood cancer patients undergoing mismatched stem cell transplants. This award follows a $4 million CIRM grant received by Tr1X in early 2024 for late-stage preclinical research that helped to advance TRX103 to human trials.

The TRX103 Phase 1/2a clinical trial is being led by Maria Grazia Roncarolo, MD, co-founder, president and head of R&D at Tr1X, with patients enrolling at leading stem cell transplant centers across the country. The trial is designed to treat patients receiving a mismatched or haploidentical transplant with a one-time infusion of TRX103. The Company has reported positive initial persistence and safety data in the first two patient cohorts, with additional data anticipated ...