On October 11, 2022 UroGen Pharma Ltd. (NASDAQ: URGN), a biotech company dedicated to developing and commercializing innovative solutions that treat urothelial and specialty cancers, reported that it will host a thought leader webinar on non-muscle-invasive bladder cancers (NMIBC) and the potential role of the Company’s investigational product candidate, UGN-102, to treat low-grade intermediate-risk NMIBC (LG-IR-NMIBC) on Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 9:00 AM Eastern Time (Press release, UroGen Pharma, OCT 11, 2022, View Source [SID1234621899]).
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The webinar will feature presentations from key opinion leaders Gary D. Steinberg, MD, from NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and William C. Huang, MD, from NYU Langone Health, who will discuss the unmet medical need and the current treatment landscape for NMIBC patients.
UroGen leadership will provide insight into their pipeline portfolio, highlighting the Company’s Phase 3 clinical program of UGN-102, an investigational therapeutic that utilizes UroGen’s innovative technology, RTGel reverse-thermal hydrogel, and mitomycin for the potential treatment of LG-IR-NMIBC.
A live Q&A session will follow the formal presentations. To register for the event, please click here.
Dr. Steinberg is Director of the Urology Bladder Cancer Program and Professor in the Department of Urology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He earned his MD from the University of Chicago and completed his Residency in Urology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. At NYU Langone’s Perlmutter Cancer Center, Dr. Steinberg treats people who have muscle-invasive and non-muscle–invasive bladder cancer. He specializes in performing radical cystectomy, a procedure in which the entire bladder and nearby lymph nodes are removed, as well as urinary tract reconstruction after bladder removal surgery. Dr. Steinberg is highly active in clinical research and leads multiple trials that investigate new medications and procedures for the treatment of bladder cancer. He has authored or coauthored more than 200 journal articles as well as many medical textbook chapters. He chairs the scientific advisory board of the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network and is on the executive committee of the Bladder Cancer Research Network. In addition, he is a member of multiple professional organizations, including the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) (Free ASCO Whitepaper), the Society of Urologic Oncology, and the American Urological Association.
William C. Huang, MD, is a urologic oncologist at NYU Langone Health and the Perlmutter Cancer Institute. He is Professor of Urology and Radiology and Vice Chair (Clinical Affairs) in the Department of Urology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Dr. Huang is also the Chief of Urology at Tisch Hospital and the Co-Director of the Robotic Surgery Center at NYU Langone Health. Dr. Huang has extensive experience in open, robotic, and laparoscopic surgical techniques. His surgical expertise includes the treatment of complex kidney, retroperitoneal, and testicular tumors, along with minimally invasive partial nephrectomy, radical cystectomy, retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy, and prostatectomy. Dr. Huang has published over 200 articles in several high-impact journals including the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO), Lancet Oncology, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). He has lectured at both national and international meetings, particularly on improving outcomes following kidney cancer surgery. Dr. Huang continues to advance the field of urologic oncology through his research into novel approaches to the diagnosis and management of kidney, testicular cancer, and non-muscle invasive bladder.
About LG-IR-NMIBC
Out of the 80,000 estimated cases of bladder cancer per year in the U.S., approximately 35,000 are low-grade NMIBC patients comprised of both low-risk (approximately 15,000) and intermediate risk (approximately 20,000). These patients face a future of recurrence and additional surgeries. Recurrence in low-grade intermediate-risk NMIBC is pervasive and often underestimated. In patients who recur, approximately 68 percent will experience two or more recurrence episodes throughout the course of their disease, a high and frequent rate in contrast to other non-metastatic cancers. Currently, the only effective primary treatment available is a surgical procedure known as transurethral resection of bladder tumor, or TURBT. Every time TURBT is performed it imposes more burden and serious risks on the patient. Approximately 25 percent of patients are not appropriate for TURBT, whether due to physical factors such as age and comorbidities or an unwillingness to undergo surgery.
About UGN-102
UGN-102 (mitomycin) for intravesical solution is an investigational drug formulation of mitomycin in Phase 3 development for the treatment of low-grade intermediate risk NMIBC. Utilizing RTGel Technology, UroGen’s proprietary sustained release, hydrogel-based formulation, UGN-102 is designed to enable longer exposure of bladder tissue to mitomycin, thereby enabling the treatment of tumors by non-surgical means. UGN-102 is delivered to patients using a standard urinary catheter. The Company presented results from the Phase 2b OPTIMA II trial in September 2021.
About the Phase 3 ENVISION Trial
The Phase 3 ENVISION trial is a multinational, multicenter single-arm study evaluating the efficacy and safety of UGN-102 (mitomycin) as primary chemoablative therapy in patients with low-grade, intermediate-risk NMIBC. The Phase 3 ENVISION trial is expected to enroll approximately 220 patients across 90 sites and study participants will receive six once-weekly intravesical instillations of UGN-102. The planned primary endpoint will evaluate the complete response rate at three months after the first installation, and the key secondary endpoint will evaluate durability over time in patients who achieve complete response at the three-month assessment. Based on discussions with the FDA, and enrollment expected by the end of 2022, assuming positive findings, UroGen anticipates submitting an NDA for UGN-102 in 2024.