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FDA approves the Investigational New Drug Application for PCM-075 for the treatment of AML
On 27th July 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted the Investigational New Drug (IND) application for PCM-075, a Polo-like Kinase 1 (PLK1) inhibitor, for the treatment of Relapsed or Refractory (R/R) patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML).1
In most normal tissues, PLK1 is expressed at very low levels, however it has been found to be overexpressed in multiple AML cell lines and also in leukemia blasts from AML patients. Overexpression of PLK1 in AML patients have been reported to be associated with poor prognosis in these group of patients.2 PCM-075 selectively inhibits the PLK1 enzyme thereby inducing cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in cancer cells.3
The IND approval granted by the FDA allows PCM-075 to be evaluated in a phase Ib/II clinical trial which aims to evaluate the safety and efficacy of PCM-075 in combination with decitabine in patients with AML, who are in relapse or refractory.
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