Curis Reports Publication of CUDC-907 Phase 1 Trial Data in Lancet Oncology

Curis, Inc.

, a biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative and effective drug candidates for the treatment of human cancers, today announced the publication of results from the dose escalation part of the Phase 1 clinical trial in the journal Lancet Oncology. The publication, titled "Safety, tolerability, and preliminary activity of CUDC-907, a first-in-class, oral, dual inhibitor of HDAC and PI3K, in patients with relapsed or refractory lymphoma or multiple myeloma: an open-label, dose-escalation, phase 1 trial" was authored by the clinical investigators of the first-in-man Phase 1 study as well as members of Curis' clinical and scientific teams. The publication is also accompanied by an independent commentary in the journal titled "Dual inhibition of oncogenic targets for B-cell malignancies" by Paul G. Richardson, M.D., R.J. Corman Professor of Medicine at the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. "The data from the Phase 1 monotherapy trial for CUDC-907, especially in heavily pretreated patients with relapsed/ refractory DLBCL are very encouraging and we look forward to data emerging from the current Phase 2 trial in patients with MYC-altered DLBCL," said Dr. Anas Younes, M.D., Chief of the Lymphoma Service of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, the Principal Investigator of the Phase 1 trial and the publication's senior author. Based on the clinical activity observed in patients with relapsed/ refractory-DLBCL, particularly those with cancers harboring MYC alterations, Curis has initiated a Phase 2 trial to evaluate CUDC-907 in patients with MYC-altered RR-DLBCL. Additional details of the Phase 2 trial can be found at www.clinicaltrials.gov (study identifier: NCT02674750)