Promising Preclinical Narazaciclib Data Presented at MCL Meeting
NEWTOWN, Pa., Oct. 19, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Onconova Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ONTX), (“Onconova”, the “Company”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel products for patients with cancer, today announced that one of the Company’s scientific collaborators, Gaël Roué, Ph.D., from the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute, Spain, made a podium presentation during the European MCL Network Annual Meeting in Dublin, Ireland on October 7, 2023 regarding promising ongoing preclinical studies of narazaciclib, in combination with ibrutinib and other targeted therapies used in the treatment for mantle cell lymphoma.
- The biology of MCL is very interesting to Onconova because of the link to cyclin D1 (CD1) overexpression.
- We believe this molecular feature could make MCL amenable to treatment combinations that include narazaciclib,” said Steven Fruchtman, M.D., President and CEO of Onconova.
- Together, these data provide a foundation of support for using narazaciclib in MCL and other cyclin-dependent indications.
- Data from the combination of narazaciclib and ibrutinib showed significant synergistic anti-tumor activity in both sensitive and ibrutinib-resistant MCL models.