Clovis Oncology Completes US, EU Regulatory Submissions for Rociletinib for Treatment of Advanced EGFR-Mutant T790M+ NSCLC

Clovis Oncology, Inc.

announced today that it has submitted its New Drug Application (NDA) regulatory filing to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for rociletinib for the treatment of patients with mutant epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have been previously treated with an EGFR-targeted therapy and have the EGFR T790M mutation as detected by an FDA approved test. Rociletinib is the Company's novel, oral targeted covalent (irreversible) mutant-selective inhibitor of EGFR in development for the treatment of NSCLC in patients with initial activating EGFR mutations, as well as the dominant resistance mutation T790M. Rociletinib was granted Breakthrough Therapy designation by the U.S. FDA in May 2014.