Agios Pharmaceuticals To Present Clinical Data From AG-120 Ongoing Phase 1 Study In Hematologic Malignancies At EORTC-NCI-AACR 2014

Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

, a leader in the fields of cancer metabolism and rare genetic disorders of metabolism, today announced that clinical data from a Phase 1 study of AG-120, an orally available, selective, potent inhibitor of the mutated IDH1 protein, will be highlighted in a late breaking oral presentation at the 26th EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics taking place November 18 - 21, 2014, in Barcelona, Spain. “We look forward to sharing the first clinical data from our AG-120 Phase 1 trial in patients with advanced hematologic malignancies during the late-breaker session at EORTC-NCI-AACR,” said David Schenkein, M.D., chief executive officer at Agios. “We believe IDH1 is an important target that has the potential to make a difference for patients with a broad range of hematologic and solid tumor cancers.” Title: Clinical safety and activity in a phase I trial of AG-120, a first in class, selective, potent inhibitor of the IDH1-mutant protein, in patients with IDH1 mutant positive advanced hematologic malignancies. Presentation time: Wednesday, November 19, 2014, at 2:50 p.m. CET Session title: Plenary Session 2: Proffered Paper Session Abstract Code: 1LBA