DUBLIN, Calif., December 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SuperGen, Inc. today announced that investigators have dosed the first patient in a multi-arm Phase 1b clinical trial of MP470, a novel, oral, multi-targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI). The trial will evaluate MP470 in combination with several standard of care chemotherapy regimens, including carboplatin/paclitaxel, carboplatin/etoposide, docetaxel, topotecan, and erlotinib. The trial is expected to enroll up to 105 patients at five study centers.
The Phase 1b trial is an open label, dose-escalation study designed to assess the safety and tolerability of MP470 in combination with these standard of care chemotherapy regimens, and to define the dose of MP470 to advance into Phase 2 combination studies. Additionally, the Company will assess pharmacokinetic and biomarker data from the study. The trial is open to chemotherapy naïve or treatment experienced patients with a variety of solid tumors irrespective of previous lines of therapy.
"MP470 shows significant preclinical synergy with all of these well established chemotherapy agents. Its preclinical toxicology profile, as well as preliminary safety data from our ongoing Phase 1 trial suggests it will be safe to combine it with these regimens," said Dr. Gregory Berk, Chief Medical Officer of SuperGen. "In preclinical models, MP470 also suppresses Rad51, a protein that plays a key role in the mechanism of resistance to these treatments. We believe this offers the potential for MP470 to improve on the efficacy of these therapies. The multi-arm, Phase 1b design allows us to accelerate the clinical development of MP470 which will expedite the timeline to our Phase 2 program."
About MP470
MP470 is an oral, multi-targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor that inhibits the mutant forms of c-KIT, PDGFR and FLT3, and suppresses c-MET and c-RET. MP470 also suppresses the Rad51 protein, a critical component of double- stranded DNA repair in cancer cells. Preclinical testing of MP470 has identified anti-tumor activity against a wide spectrum of cancers and is synergistic with a variety of chemotherapy agents as well as radiation therapy. MP470 is currently being evaluated in a single agent Phase 1 trial in patients with solid tumors.
About SuperGen
Based in Dublin, Calif., SuperGen, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, rapid development and commercialization of therapies for solid tumors and hematological malignancies. SuperGen is developing a number of therapeutic anticancer products focused on kinase and cell signaling inhibitors, and DNA methyltransferase inhibitors. For more information about SuperGen, please visit http://www.supergen.com
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