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.
FDA accepted a new drug application and granted priority review designation for the investigational compound sevabertinib (BAY 2927088), an oral, small molecule, tyrosine kinase inhibitor, for the treatment of adult patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer whose tumors have activating human epidermal growth factor receptors 2 (HER2) (ERBB2) mutations and who have received a prior systemic therapy.
