Jeg må rette på meg selv her, fordi det ser ut som det er 2L de sikter seg inn mot, mens bemcentinib jo kjøres mot 1L. Dette er noe jeg har funnet tidligere og hadde i notatfilene mine, men da jeg fant ovenstående i Arcus Q4-rapport, hadde jeg glemt det jeg tidligere hadde funnet og at det også dreide seg om AB801.
At det er 2L de sikter seg inn mot, kommer frem i transcript fra i QA på Arcus Q4 webcast, her er relevante sitater fra transcript: Transcript : Arcus Biosciences, Inc. Presents at Citi's 2023 Virtual Oncology Leadership Summit, Feb-21-2023 01:00 PM | Zonebourse
So the first I’ll call out is what we think will be a best-inclass small molecule AXL inhibitor, and that we would primarily derive from its selectivity, that is expected to enter clinical development in middle of the year. We expect to target STK11 mutant tumors with this molecule.
Question
Yigal Nochomovitz (Analysts)
Okay. And let’s talk a little bit about some of the earlier programs. I think you mentioned you’re starting the AXL inhibitor trial soon. So what’s the pitch on that asset? And there have been a number of other AXL inhibitors, if I recall, but I don’t know how far they’ve gotten in the clinic.
Answer
Juan Jaen (Executives)
Yes. I mean essentially, every TKI that you can name probably touched the [indiscernible] to some extent. So depending on the year, people have over time chosen to highlight the AXL component of what’s otherwise a fairly nonspecific TKI profile, we decided to go and make the world’s best, most potent and selective AXL inhibitor which I think we accomplished, the molecule is AB801. We think we can take advantage of some of the data that’s been generated by earlier compounds.
Lately, our – 2 of our competitors have shared early, but intriguing data in advanced non-small cell lung cancer and second-line plus ovarian. We’ve chosen to steer our AXL inhibitor program towards a second-line non-small cell lung cancer population. As Terry pointed out, the STK11mutant subset of that is particularly interesting from a biological perspective, but I think at this point, we’re aiming towards an unselected population and will take a look in a randomized fashion comparing standard of care chemo against chemo plus our AXL inhibitor in the second line non-small cell lung cancer population. And again, the plan is to initiate that study towards the middle of this year.