On October 19, 2023 Kura Oncology, Inc. (Nasdaq: KURA), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to realizing the promise of precision medicines for the treatment of cancer, reported that the first patient has been dosed in the FIT-001 Phase 1 dose-escalation trial of KO-2806, the Company’s next-generation farnesyl transferase inhibitor (FTI) for the treatment of advanced solid tumors (Press release, Kura Oncology, OCT 19, 2023, View Source [SID1234636144]).
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"We’re excited to advance our next-generation FTI drug candidate into the clinical setting, underscoring our commitment and sense of urgency to develop novel therapies for cancer indications with high unmet medical needs," said Troy Wilson, Ph.D., J.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of Kura Oncology. "Our understanding of how to use FTIs to target farnesylated proteins has matured significantly beyond our initial strategy to target HRAS mutant tumors. With the success of targeted therapies such as KRASG12C inhibitors, tyrosine kinase inhibitors and EGFR inhibitors, there is now considerable focus on the development of companion therapeutics that have potential to drive enhanced antitumor activity and address mechanisms of innate and adaptive resistance. We will focus the development of KO-2806 initially in combinations in the areas of lung cancer and renal cell carcinomas and, if successful, we believe KO-2806 could become the ideal combination partner for a wide range of targeted therapies."
FIT-001 is a Phase 1, first-in-human, multicenter, open-label study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and preliminary antitumor activity of KO-2806 when administered as monotherapy and in combination with targeted therapies. Concurrent with the monotherapy dose escalation, the Company plans to evaluate KO-2806 in dose-escalation combination cohorts with other targeted therapies, beginning in KRASG12C-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC). For more information regarding FIT-001, please visit www.clinicaltrials.gov (identifier: NCT06026410).
About KO-2806
KO-2806 is a next-generation inhibitor of farnesyl transferase designed to improve upon potency, pharmacokinetic and physicochemical properties of earlier FTI drug candidates. Earlier this month at the AACR (Free AACR Whitepaper)-NCI-EORTC AACR-NCI-EORTC (Free AACR-NCI-EORTC Whitepaper) International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics (EORTC-NCI-AACR) (Free ASGCT Whitepaper) (Free EORTC-NCI-AACR Whitepaper), Kura presented promising preclinical data supporting the rationale for combining KO-2806 with distinct classes of targeted therapies, including tyrosine kinase inhibitors, KRASG12C inhibitors and KRASG12D inhibitors. Additional information about clinical trials for KO-2806 can be found at View Source