Eli Lilly and Company announced that the FDA has granted Breakthrough Therapy designation to olomorasib, in combination with anti-PD-1 therapy KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab), for the first-line treatment of patients with unresectable advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with a KRAS G12C mutation and PD-L1 expression ≥ 50%, as determined by FDA approved tests. Olomorasib is a potent and highly selective second-generation inhibitor of KRAS G12C with preliminary evidence of central nervous system (CNS) activity.
Breakthrough Therapy designation aims to expedite the development and review of drugs that are intended to treat a serious condition when preliminary clinical evidence indicates that the drug may demonstrate substantial improvement on a clinically significant endpoint(s) over already available therapies that have received full FDA approval.
"The Breakthrough Therapy designation recognizes the potential for olomorasib to be a meaningful treatment advance and highlights the continued unmet need for improved options for patients with KRAS G12C-mutant NSCLC, particularly in the first-line setting in combination with standard-of-care immunotherapy," said David Hyman, M.D., Lilly chief medical officer. "We look forward to presenting updated data from the olomorasib development program in significantly more patients and with longer follow-up at WCLC and continuing to investigate olomorasib in combination with immunotherapy-based regimens in a variety of treatment settings across the Phase 3 SUNRAY-01 and SUNRAY-02 studies."
The FDA Breakthrough Therapy designation is based on encouraging results from the Phase 1/2 LOXO-RAS-20001 trial and the dose optimization portion of the Phase 3 SUNRAY-01 trial.
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