On June 30, 2023 Oxcia’s CEO Ulrika Warpman Berglund reported that it has been invited to present "OXC-101: A Novel Way to Treat Acute Myeloid Leukemia by Inducing Mitotic Arrest, ROS and Oxidative Damage" at the 18th Annual Congress of International Drug Discovery Science & Technology (IDDST) conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 12-14, 2023 (Press release, Oxcia, JUN 30, 2023, View Source [SID1234633010]).
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OXC-101 is a mitotic MTH1 inhibitor, with a unique synergistic dual mechanism of action. It arrests cancer cells in mitosis by disturbing microtubule polymerization, thereby accumulating ROS which in turn generates e.g. oxidized nucleotides. By inhibiting the enzyme MTH1, OXC-101 incorporates more oxidized nucleotides into DNA resulting in DNA damage and the cancer cell dies via apoptosis and mitotic catastrophe. Hematological cancers are highly responsive to OXC-101 treatment. Importantly, OXC-101 has been demonstrated to kill primary human AML blast cells as well as chemotherapy resistant leukemic stem cells. The latter are often responsible for AML progression. OXC-101 significantly improves survival in different AML disease models and is an excellent combination partner to the standard of care treatment of AML. The preclinical data supports that OXC-101 is a promising novel anticancer agent for AML, providing rationale for the on-going clinical phase 1 trial in advanced hematological cancers. Oxcia recently obtained a Swelife/MedTech4Health grant together with Karolinska University Hospital Örebro University Hospital and Karolinska institutet to further explore the clinical benefit and safety of OXC-101 in refractory/relapsed AML patients at the recommended phase 2 dose.
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