Cullinan Oncology Inc. and Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. announced an agreement through which Taiho will acquire Cullinan Pearl Corp. and co-develop and co-commercialize Cullinan Oncology’s lead program, CLN-081/TAS6417, an orally available, differentiated, irreversible EGFR inhibitor that selectively targets cells expressing EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations, while sparing cells expressing wild-type EGFR in non-small cell lung cancer.
At its most recent meeting, the FDA Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee focused on perioperative clinical trials, which the agency defined as neoadjuvant phase followed by surgery and continuing with adjuvant treatment using the same experimental agent (The Cancer Letter, July 26, 2024).
