Debiopharm & Repare Therapeutics Announce First Patient Dosed in Phase 1/1b Mythic Trial Evaluating the Synthetic Lethal Combination of WEE1 AND PKMYT1 Inhibition
30 Aprile 2024 - 1:05PM
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Debiopharm (www.debiopharm.com), a privately-owned, Swiss-based
biopharmaceutical company aiming to establish tomorrow’s standards
of care to cure cancer and infectious diseases, and Repare
Therapeutics Inc. (“Repare”) (Nasdaq: RPTX), a leading
clinical-stage precision oncology company, announced that the first
patient has been dosed in Module 4 of the ongoing Phase 1/1b MYTHIC
(NCT04855656) clinical trial, investigating the combination of
Debio 0123 and lunresertib. In this trial, Debiopharm and Repare
seek to assess the safety, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and
preliminary clinical activity of this PKMYT1 and WEE1 inhibitor
combination.
In early January, Debiopharm and Repare announced a
collaboration to evaluate the clinical combination of Debio 0123,
an oral, brain-penetrant, highly selective WEE1 kinase inhibitor
and lunresertib, a first-in-class, selective and potent oral small
molecule inhibitor of PKMYT1. This collaboration is based on
preclinical in vivo data and other data showing rapid, remarkable
tumor regressions and high predicted clinical tolerability and
represents the first clinical-stage approach to inhibiting both
PKMYT1 and WEE1.
“Debio 0123 and lunresertib have the potential to be a
transformative combination therapy for cancer patients with high
unmet medical need,” said Angela Zubel, Chief Development Officer
of Debiopharm. “Treating the first patient in this new Module of
the MYTHIC clinical trial is an important milestone for our
collaboration, as it allows us to execute clinical development
swiftly. We look forward to working closely with Repare to further
characterize these innovative precision medicine therapies.”
“We are excited to have treated our first patient with
lunresertib and Debio 0123,” said Maria Koehler, MD, PhD, Executive
Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Repare. “Each of these
compounds is well understood and clinically characterized. This
combination provides us a unique opportunity to optimize dosing
between two selective compounds and overcome limitations inherent
to dual-inhibitor approaches. We expect this clinical collaboration
will allow us to optimize the excellent synergy we saw
preclinically to maximize patient benefit and tolerability.”
About Debio 0123
Debio 0123 is an oral, brain-penetrant, highly selective WEE1
kinase inhibitor. WEE1 is a key regulator of the G2/M and S phase
checkpoints, activated in response to DNA damage and replication
stress, allowing cells to repair their DNA before resuming their
cell cycle. WEE1 inhibition, particularly in combination with DNA
damaging agents, induces an accumulation of DNA damage and pushes
the cells through cell cycle without DNA repair, promoting mitotic
catastrophe and induction of apoptosis in cancer cells. Debio 0123
is currently being investigated in clinical trials in patients with
solid tumors as a monotherapy and in combination. Debio 0123 is
being developed to address high unmet needs of patients living with
the burden of difficult-to-treat cancers.
About Lunresertib
Lunresertib (RP-6306) is a first-in-class, selective and potent
oral small molecule inhibitor of PKMYT1, a cancer target Repare
discovered and identified as synthetic lethal with CCNE1
amplification, FBXW7 and PPP2R1A alterations in solid tumors.
Lunresertib is currently the sole PKMYT1 inhibitor known to be in
clinical trials and is being evaluated alone and in combinations
across several studies in the US, UK/EU4 and Canada. Repare has
presented positive initial Phase 1 data from its ongoing Phase 1
MYTHIC trial (NCT04855656) demonstrating proof of concept for
lunresertib alone and in combination. In addition to being well
tolerated and having a compelling safety profile, Repare presented
anti-tumor activity for lunresertib in combination with
camonsertib, an ATR inhibitor developed by Repare, expanded
clinical studies for which are ongoing.
About Repare Therapeutics, Inc.
Repare Therapeutics is a leading clinical-stage precision
oncology company enabled by its proprietary synthetic lethality
approach to the discovery and development of novel therapeutics.
The Company utilizes its genome-wide, CRISPR-enabled SNIPRx®
platform to systematically discover and develop highly targeted
cancer therapies focused on genomic instability, including DNA
damage repair. The Company’s pipeline includes lunresertib (also
known as RP-6306), a PKMYT1 inhibitor currently in Phase 1/2
clinical development; camonsertib (also known as RP-3500), a
potential leading ATR inhibitor currently in Phase 1/2 clinical
development; RP-1664, a Phase 1 PLK4 inhibitor program; RP-3467, a
preclinical Polθ ATPase inhibitor program; as well as additional,
undisclosed preclinical programs. For more information, please
visit reparerx.com and follow @Reparerx on X (formerly Twitter) and
LinkedIn.
Debiopharm's Commitment to Patients
Debiopharm aims to develop innovative therapies that target high
unmet medical needs in oncology and bacterial infections. Bridging
the gap between disruptive discovery products and real-world
patient reach, we identify high-potential compounds and
technologies for in-licensing, clinically demonstrate their safety
and efficacy, and then hand stewardship to large pharmaceutical
commercialization partners to maximize patient access globally.
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