Bristol Myers Squibb gets USFDA priority review for lung cancer treatment Repotrectinib
Non-small cell lung cancer is one of the most common types of lung cancer, representing up to 84% of diagnoses.
Princeton: Bristol Myers Squibb has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the New Drug Application (NDA) for repotrectinib, a next-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), for the treatment of patients with ROS1-positive locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), based on results from the TRIDENT-1 trial. The FDA has granted the application Priority Review and assigned a Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) goal date of November 27, 2023.
“Patients with ROS1-positive non-small cell lung cancer face a rare disease with a significant unmet medical need given the limited durability of benefit and emergence of resistance to approved therapies,” said Jonathan Cheng, M.D., senior vice president and head of oncology development, Bristol Myers Squibb. “The FDA’s acceptance of this application marks an exciting milestone on our journey to bring this next-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitor to patients. If approved, this would represent a potential best-in-class option for TKI-naïve patients and a potential first-in-class option for patients with ROS1-positive NSCLC who have been previously treated with TKI, and for whom there are currently no approved targeted therapies available. We are eager to continue working closely with the FDA on the review of this precision medicine, which has shown unprecedented level of durability of responses and robust intracranial responses in patients with ROS1-positive NSCLC.”
The filing was based on results from the registrational TRIDENT-1 study. In the trial, repotrectinib demonstrated high response rates and clinically meaningful durability of benefit in both TKI-naïve and TKI-pretreated patients, including those with ROS1 resistance mutations. The safety profile of repotrectinib was well characterized and manageable. Results from TRIDENT-1 were most recently presented at the 2022 EORTC-NCI-AACR (ENA) Symposium. The study remains ongoing to assess long-term outcomes and additional endpoints across patient populations with ROS1-positive locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC and NTRK-positive advanced solid tumors.
Turning Point Therapeutics is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. As of August 2022, Bristol Myers Squibb acquired the leading clinical stage precision oncology company and its pipeline of investigational drugs across precision oncology and advanced solid tumors, including repotrectinib.
