Flare Therapeutics Inc. today announced a poster presentation outlining the Phase 1 clinical trial design of FX-909, a highly potent and selective inhibitor of PPARG, at the 2024 ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium taking place from January 25-27, 2024 in San Francisco, CA.
| --First-in-human trial evaluating safety, tolerability, and clinical activity of FX-909 in patients with advanced solid malignancies including advanced urothelial carcinoma-- CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Flare Therapeutics Inc., a biotechnology company targeting transcription factors (TF) to discover precision medicines for cancer and other diseases, today announced a poster presentation outlining the Phase 1 clinical trial design of FX-909, a highly potent and selective inhibitor of PPARG, at the 2024 ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium taking place from January 25-27, 2024 in San Francisco, CA.
“FlareTx has built a robust body of preclinical evidence that supports investigation of FX-909 in clinical trials in patients,” said Michael L. Meyers, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Medical Officer of Flare Therapeutics. “Results shown to date reveal that FX-909 eradicates tumors in urothelial cancer (UC) animal models at low oral doses. Our scientists have also leveraged high PPARG expression as a defining feature of luminal muscle-invasive UC (MIUC) to identify genetically defined populations and select the patients that may be more likely to benefit from a treatment like FX-909. In addition, we recently shared novel translational data correlating increased PPARG expression with an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME) and shorter real-world progression-free survival to anti-PD1 treatment.” PPARG drives luminal cell identity and accounts for two-thirds of all advanced cases of UC. Targeting PPARG offers a novel approach to treating advanced UC that could pave the way to improved clinical outcomes in patients with a luminal subtype. Treatment of genetically defined UC xenografts with FX-909 has shown an 84% tumor growth inhibition at a dose expected to be equivalent to a 50 mg dose in humans – the starting dose in the Phase 1 clinical study. FX-909-CLINPRO-1 (NCT05929235) is a first-in-human, multicenter, open-label Phase 1 study designed to assess the safety and tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK), pharmacodynamics (PD), and preliminary clinical activity of FX-909 given orally to patients with advanced solid malignancies. Exploratory objectives include the evaluation of patient selection biomarkers from tissue and blood samples and association with clinical outcomes. In the US, approximately 10 sites are planned for Phase 1A and 12-15 sites for Phase 1B. “While advanced bladder cancer and MIUC remain lethal diseases, we are starting to see a real renaissance in providing new treatment options, thanks to increasing knowledge of the underlying molecular pathways involved,” said Gopa Iyer, Genitourinary Oncologist & Early Drug Development Specialist, Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center. “FlareTx’s novel mechanism of action offers the possibility of a much needed second line option for patients who demonstrate disease progression following standard-of-care platinum chemotherapy, immune checkpoint inhibition, and/or ADC-based therapies.” Details for the presentation are as follows: Poster Title: A Phase 1, First-in-Human, Dose-Escalation and Expansion Study of FX-909 in Patients with Advanced Solid Malignancies, Including Advanced Urothelial Carcinoma About FX-909 About the FX-909 Phase 1 Study About Advanced Urothelial Carcinoma (UC) About Flare Therapeutics Inc.
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