Date: 2016-10-12
Type of information: Collaboration agreement
Compound: companion diagnostic tests to identify isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) mutations in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients
Company: Celgene (USA - NJ) Agios Pharmaceuticals (USA -MA) Abbott (USA - IL)
Therapeutic area: Cancer - Oncology - Diagnostic
Type agreement: collaboration
Action mechanism: companion diagnostic
Disease: acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Details: * On October 12, 2016, Celgene Corporation and Agios Pharmaceuticals announced each company has entered into collaboration agreements with Abbott, a leader in diagnostic technologies, to develop and commercialize companion diagnostic tests on Abbott's m2000 RealTime System to identify isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) mutations in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients. Abbott's m2000rt RealTime System, is a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) instrument designed to enable clinical laboratories to automate PCR and results analysis, simplifying the complex and manual steps often associated with molecular diagnostics. Both Celgene and Agios have incorporated this screening into clinical trial designs, including the recently initiated Phase 3 IDHENTIFY trial comparing enasidenib with conventional therapy in older patients with an IDH2 mutation and relapsed or refractory AML. Celgene is currently developing enasidenib (AG-221/CC-90007), an IDH2 mutant inhibitor, for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory AML who have an IDH2 mutation. Agios is developing AG-120, an IDH1 mutant inhibitor, for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory AML who have an IDH1 mutation.
IDH1 and IDH2 mutations occur in approximately 20% of AML patients. An article published online this week in the journal Leukemia (Medeiros, Leukemia 2016) concluded that advances in the understanding of the genetics underlying myeloid malignancies are driving an era of development for targeted treatments such as IDH mutant inhibitors. The authors recommend that IDH mutational analysis should become part of the routine AML diagnostic workup and repeated at relapse to identify patients who may be eligible for targeted investigational treatments currently under clinical study.
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