Company Commences First-in-Human Study at Multiple Academic Sites in United States
| HADDONFIELD, N.J., Oct. 29, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Linnaeus Therapeutics, Inc. (Linnaeus), a privately held clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel small molecule oncology therapeutics, today announced that it has dosed the first patient in its phase 1/2 clinical trial of LNS8801 in patients with advanced solid and hematologic cancers. This marks the first time any company has dosed a patient in a clinical trial specifically targeting the G protein-coupled estrogen receptor (GPER). The initiation of the study follows U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance of the company’s investigational new drug application (IND) for LNS8801 in late September. LNS8801 is an orally bioavailable small molecule that is a highly specific and potent agonist of the GPER. “We are thrilled to begin testing LNS8801 in patients with advanced cancer. We will have six outstanding academic comprehensive cancer centers all enthusiastically recruiting patients for this promising study,” commented Patrick Mooney, MD, chief executive officer of Linnaeus. “LNS8801 has very real potential to provide meaningful and lasting clinical benefit for patients with cancer, and we look forward to providing updates over the course of the study.” The study entitled, “A Multicenter Study to Assess the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, and Antitumor Activity of LNS8801 in Patients with Advanced Cancer,” is designed in two parts. The phase 1 dose-escalation portion of the trial will assess the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and preliminary antitumor activity of LNS8801. After a recommended phase 2 dose is established, dose expansion cohorts are anticipated. About LNS8801 About Linnaeus
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