Tuesday's Radar: (Nasdaq: ONCY) Grabs Our Full Focus With 7 Key Potential Catalysts
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September 15th Greetings, Friend!
On September 10th, Oncolytics Biotech Inc. (Nasdaq: ONCY) released preclinical findings almost nobody outside oncology noticed.
Pelareorep, the company’s lead therapy, was paired with a pan-RAS inhibitor in colorectal cancer models. Tumors shrank, and, more to the point, neither agent got in the other’s way.
Chief Medical Officer Dr. Thomas Heineman called it “an encouraging first look at combining pelareorep with one of the most important emerging classes of targeted cancer therapies.”
That quiet release capped a busy eight months.
Since March, ONCY has launched a randomized colorectal trial, reported durable responses in a hard-to-treat population, won a manufacturing patent running into 2044, collected a third Fast Track designation, and obtained written FDA feedback supporting a pivotal expansion of a trial already enrolling patients.
The record behind that run is specific.
In REO 022, a study of second-line KRAS-mutant, microsatellite-stable metastatic colorectal cancer, pelareorep with bevacizumab and FOLFIRI produced a 33% objective response rate against a 6% to 11% historical benchmark, a 19.5-month median duration of response against four to six months, and 27-month median overall survival against 11.2 months.
The anal carcinoma data carry a similar shape.
In the GOBLET study, pelareorep paired with a checkpoint inhibitor delivered roughly a 30% objective response rate, a 15.5-month median duration of response versus 9.5 months historically, and 82% survival at twelve months versus 45.7%.
Patients who progress after first-line treatment have no FDA-approved options today, a gap the company sizes near $1Bn in annual U.S. spending.
All three programs sit on one asset. Pelareorep is described by the company as a first-in-class double-stranded RNA immunotherapeutic agent, with a safety profile demonstrated in over 1,300 patients. |
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