On January 30, 2024 Rgenta Therapeutics ("Rgenta" or the "Company") reported that it was selected by The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) as a new Therapy Acceleration Program (TAP) portfolio company, and provided with strategic funding to support preclinical and clinical advancement of the Company’s therapeutics in hematologic malignancies utilizing its RNA-targeting small molecule platform to target MYB, an oncogenic transcription factor (Press release, Rgenta Therapeutics, JAN 30, 2024, View Source;lymphoma-society-therapy-acceleration-program-302047063.html [SID1234639721]).
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"We are honored by the support and recognition of LLS’s Therapy Acceleration Program. LLS’s strategic investment in Rgenta continues to bolster our confidence in the potential of our pipeline of oral, small-molecule RNA-targeting medicines," commented Simon Xi, Ph.D., CEO of Rgenta. "We are dedicated to advancing these best-in-class RNA-targeting small molecules and believe they have the potential to make a significant impact in the treatment of multiple high-value disease areas."
"We are excited to partner with LLS TAP to tackle historically undruggable oncogenes implicated in hematologic malignancies using our small molecule RNA-targeting platform", said Travis Wager, Ph.D., President & CSO. "We look forward to tapping into the extensive clinical expertise and resources from LLS to accelerate the development of our RNA-targeting MYB inhibitor molecules."
"LLS has a long-standing history of helping to accelerate development of breakthrough blood cancer treatments, and we’re particularly excited when work like Rgenta’s focuses on key mechanisms in blood cancer that have historically been extremely difficult to target with drugs" said Lore Gruenbaum, Ph.D., Vice President of LLS TAP. "This new partnership is an exciting addition to LLS TAP’s portfolio of companies that are working to provide new hope to all blood cancer patients."