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So in dermatomyositis with the TYK2, we chose a selected indication of a high unmet medical need to explore the activity of TYK2. The combined 3667 TYK2 in the compound shown clinical activity in psoriasis in Phase Ib and was well tolerated. Dermatomyositis is a chronic to immune disease of skin and muscle with an estimated incidence of 2 to 10 cases per 100,000. And it -- the key drivers for it are the Type I, III interferons as well as the IL-23 pathways. It's a severe disease with muscle weakness, rash and papules and we hope to start the study before the end of the year. That is the aim and the teams are working on doing that. So that's a new indication with the TYK2 we are starting by the end of the year.
A few words on the acquisitions of CellPoint and Abound. As I already said, we would bring with CellPoint and Abound, a disruptive CAR-T manufacturing where we can go to point-of-care with a 7-day vein-to-vein process with a clinical stage pipeline. The acquisition of Abound is a complementary to that which can -- for us and we are working with Abound on the next-generation CAR-Ts but it also brings us broader biological capabilities in antibodies. The -- that all supported by the fully integrated pharma -- biopharma capabilities with our end-to-end development capabilities at Galapagos as well as our commercial presence in Europe today. And hopefully, future with these products in -- globally.
There is still a very significant unmet need in hem CAR-Ts as of today. And there are three very important points with CAR-Ts. One is access, second is durability and three is the toxicity. And with our approach, we hope we can address each of them. First, the manufacturing constraints and logistics, people need to wait. There is limited access on a global scale with a centralized production and often value time get lost for patients with high dropped heart rate leading to mortality. And that provides an opportunity to accelerate on site with a 7-day vein-to-vein, access to CAR-Ts on a very large scale with a very high added value to patients and physicians and hospitals to be able to manage their own CAR-T process in the hospitals and priorities for patients.
Durability, high relapse rates today. And the second one, the use of humanized antibodies and CAR-T constructs as we are working on would probably go to redosing, the current or most marine constructs and therefore, redosing is not working. The high relapse rate, most likely, we need multiple binders multi-specific. And that could prevent the relapse rate and therefore, provide durability.
Toxicity, as we use fresh cells at going into the system but also going out, meaning there is no freezing in the whole process. The cells are much more viable. We have still proved that it really is a differentiator but it's highly likely a differentiator on how the cells can be produced as well as can be given to patients. And hopefully, with that, we can provide the present toxicity and with that, reduce intensive care hospitalization at hospitals.
So there -- the opportunity there is for us to show the differentiation both on the CAR-T construct but also on the seven days vein-to-vein point-of-care model in the hospitals.
At the CellPoint, here in all the demonstration, if you compare seven days vein-to-vein versus the 15 to 17, even up to 30-day process in the centralized where transportation takes time, freezing in two directions. And then, of course, the central GMP facility which is a huge investment. We can all go around that by using a scalable point-of-care incubator combined with the gazette. And on the right side, you see how we do that with an automated rapid, efficient and scalable tool production incubated, including integrated quality control and release. And that will allow us, at the moment and we do it consistently in the hospital and clinical trials now seven days fresh cells vein-to-vein.
Next slide. The collaboration which is also a very big enabler for us is with Lonza, very experienced CMO, who has developed this tool. And it's existing out of two elements. One is the Cocoon incubator. And second is the gazette which is a fully closed gazette, where the production of the CAR-T is happening. What CellPoint has done is built an excellent platform around it which is a quality system and data system which monitors the whole process as well as collects all the data. And with that, we succeed now in providing quality released products within hours after the end of the process.
On the extreme light side, you see that this will also be provided in multiple units for hospitals with many CAR-T production needs. And there, a very limited space is needed in a GMP environment to be able to produce this type of -- the CAR-T and use this type of systems. It's regulatory compliant with the FDA. It has the CE mark, highly automated and it is very well proven as a manufacturing tool today.
Abound brings us a highly experienced team and that was very much needed as we were not in oncology with a proven track record of multiple industry partnerships, both in CAR-T in antibodies but also in ADC. And in antibodies, they did both in infectious disease and oncology multiple partnerships. And so with that, we acquired a research team which allows us to state that our goal is we will bring three differentiated CAR-Ts in three different indications in the next three years. We are aiming for one per year. And with that, we use their fully human multi-specific and multifunctional CAR-T capability. We have access to bispecific antibodies and antibody drug conjugates and that will help us also innovating with our chemistry here at Galapagos, where we can combine the biology with the chemistry. And so with that, working on improved efficacy and hopefully preventing cancer relapse.
We -- with the two acquisitions, we brought very quickly end-to-end oncology capabilities in-house and we are building on that and strengthen it with new talent which we are bringing in.
The Phase I study, the I/IIa study with the CAR-T in Cocoon is going well. We are enrolling patients at the moment in the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain in the Part 1 of the study. We have now five enrolled in NHL, four in CLL, a very robust program. We continue to be able to do it in seven days, vein-to-vein, in the clinical trials, in the hospitals locally produced. Part 1 is a dose escalation where with 15 patients at three doses going from low-to-high, from a very low dose to an extensive dose. And then follow-up with that is the dose expansion where we include 30 patients and that will lead then to the conclusion at the dose we get out of a dose finding as a pivotal Phase II dose. And the low-dose cohort is now completed for both trials and we'll be able to present data in the upcoming meetings before the year-end.
With that, Bart, I would like to give it to you and go over the financial results. Thank you.