MorphoSys Highlights Potential of Its Mid- to Late-Stage Oncology Pipeline at 2023 EHA Annual Meeting
Planegg/Munich, Germany, May 11, 2023 - MorphoSys AG (FSE: MOR; NASDAQ: MOR) today announced that the latest data on multiple pipeline therapies will be presented during the European Hematology Association (EHA) Hybrid Congress in Frankfurt, Germany from June 8 to 11, 2023. Three presentations will include data on pelabresib, an investigational BET inhibitor.
Pelabresib is being investigated in the Phase 2 MANIFEST study in patients with myelofibrosis and essential thrombocythemia and in the Phase 3 MANIFEST-2 study in combination with ruxolitinib as a first-line treatment for myelofibrosis. Myelofibrosis and essential thrombocythemia are both myeloproliferative neoplasms, which are types of blood cancers that begin with a genetic change in bone marrow stem cells. The presentations on pelabresib include:
- An oral presentation at EHA on new preliminary results from MANIFEST Arm 4 exploring pelabresib as a monotherapy in patients with high-risk essential thrombocythemia who are refractory or intolerant to hydroxyurea, the chemotherapeutic agent most used to treat the disease.
- A poster presentation at EHA showcasing clinical data from MANIFEST Arm 3 evaluating pelabresib in combination with ruxolitinib for the treatment of patients with myelofibrosis who had not previously been treated with a JAK inhibitor (previously presented at American Society of Hematology [ASH 2022] Annual Meeting and Exposition).
- A poster presentation at EHA with clinical data from MANIFEST Arm 2 evaluating pelabresib as add-on therapy to ruxolitinib in myelofibrosis patients with a suboptimal response or disease progression following treatment with ruxolitinib (previously presented at ASH 2022).