PFE - Arvinas and Pfizer Announce Upcoming Vepdegestrant (ARV-471) Poster Presentation at ESMO Congress 2023 | Benzinga
NEW HAVEN, Conn. and NEW YORK, Oct. 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arvinas, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARVN) and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) today announced they will present updated Phase 1/2 data for vepdegestrant (ARV-471) at the 2023 European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Annual Congress. Vepdegestrant is a novel oral PROTAC® estrogen receptor (ER) degrader that is being jointly developed by Arvinas and Pfizer for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic ER positive/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) negative (ER+/HER2-) breast cancer. This update will be presented during a poster session at the annual congress being held from October 20-24, 2023, in Madrid, Spain.
Poster session details are as follows:
Date: Saturday, October 21, 2023
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. CEST / 6:00 – 7:00 a.m. EDT
Presentation Number: 390P
Speaker: Erika P. Hamilton, M.D.
- Vepdegestrant, a PROteolysis TArgeting Chimera (PROTAC) estrogen receptor (ER) degrader, in ER+/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)- advanced breast cancer: update of dose escalation results from a phase 1/2 trial
For more information, visit the official ESMO Congress website here.
About vepdegestrant (ARV-471)
Vepdegestrant is an investigational, orally bioavailable PROTAC® protein degrader designed to specifically target and degrade the estrogen receptor (ER) for the treatment of patients with early and locally advanced or metastatic ER positive/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) negative (ER+/HER2-) breast cancer. Use of vepdegestrant in the ongoing and planned clinical trials will continue to monitor and evaluate patient safety and anti-tumor activity.
In preclinical studies, vepdegestrant demonstrated up to 97% ER degradation in tumor cells, induced robust tumor shrinkage when dosed as a single agent in multiple ER-driven xenograft models, and showed increased anti-tumor activity when compared to a standard of care agent, fulvestrant, both as a single agent and in combination with a CDK4/6 inhibitor. In July 2021, Arvinas announced a global collaboration with Pfizer for the co-development and co-commercialization of vepdegestrant; Arvinas and Pfizer will equally share worldwide development costs, commercialization expenses, and profits.
About Arvinas
Arvinas is a clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to improving the lives of patients suffering from debilitating and life-threatening diseases through the discovery, development, and commercialization of therapies that degrade disease-causing proteins. Arvinas uses its proprietary PROTAC® Discovery Engine platform to engineer proteolysis targeting chimeras, or PROTAC® targeted protein degraders, that are designed to harness the body's own natural protein disposal system to selectively and efficiently degrade and remove disease-causing proteins. In addition to its robust preclinical pipeline of PROTAC protein degraders against validated and "undruggable" targets, the company has three investigational clinical-stage programs: bavdegalutamide and ARV-766 for ...