On May 16, 2018 Syros Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: SYRS), a biopharmaceutical company pioneering the discovery and development of medicines to control the expression of genes, reported that the Company will present on the design of its Phase 1 clinical trial of SY-1365, a first-in-class selective cyclin-dependent kinase 7 (CDK7) inhibitor, at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) (Free ASCO Whitepaper) Annual Meeting taking place June 1-5, 2018 in Chicago (Press release, Syros Pharmaceuticals, MAY 16, 2018, View Source [SID1234526718]).
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The Phase 1 trial is currently enrolling advanced solid tumor patients in the dose-escalation portion of the trial, with planned expansion cohorts to further evaluate SY-1365 as a single agent and in combination with standard-of-care therapies in multiple ovarian and breast cancer patient populations. Syros expects to open the expansion phase of the trial in mid-2018 and to report data from the dose-escalation portion of the trial in the fourth quarter of 2018.
Details on the presentations are as follows:
Date & Time: Monday, June 4, 8:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. CDT
Presentation Title: Trial Design of a First-in-Human Phase 1 Evaluation of SY-1365, a First-in-
Class Selective CDK7 Inhibitor, with Initial Expansions in Ovarian and Breast Cancers
Session Title: Developmental Therapeutics—Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental
Therapeutics
Presenter: Geoffrey Shapiro, M.D., Ph.D., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Abstract Number: TPS2600
Location: McCormick Place, Hall A