LUGANO, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Finbarr Cotter, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of the Institute of Cell and Molecular Science at Barts and The London School of Medicine, today presented in an oral session “Clinical Caspase Activation in CLL by GCS-100: a Phase 2 Study” at the 10th International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma (10-ICML). The promising interim results from this ongoing clinical trial indicate that single-agent GCS-100 induces apoptosis (programmed cell death) in patients’ CLL cells, reduces leukocyte count in some patients and is generally well tolerated. GCS-100 targets galectin-3, a protein over-expressed in cancer cells that promotes their survival, proliferation and metastasis.
