Drug Profile
Imetelstat - Geron Corporation
Alternative Names: GRN 140719; GRN 163; GRN 163-L; GRN 719; GRN163L peptide; Imetelstat sodium; JNJ-63935937Latest Information Update: 26 Mar 2024
Price :
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At a glance
- Originator GCP-Service International; Geron Corporation
- Developer GCP-Service International; Geron Corporation; Janssen Biotech
- Class Antifibrotics; Antineoplastics; Lipids; Oligonucleotides
- Mechanism of Action Telomerase inhibitors
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Orphan Drug Status
Orphan designation is assigned by a regulatory body to encourage companies to develop drugs for rare diseases.
- New Molecular Entity Yes
Highest Development Phases
- Preregistration Myelodysplastic syndromes
- Phase III Myelofibrosis
- Phase II Acute myeloid leukaemia
- Suspended Multiple myeloma
- No development reported Chronic myeloid leukaemia
- Discontinued Breast cancer; Essential thrombocythaemia; Lymphoproliferative disorders; Non-small cell lung cancer; Polycythaemia vera; Solid tumours
Most Recent Events
- 14 Mar 2024 The US FDA Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) voted 12 to 2 in favor of the clinical benefit/risk profile of imetelstat for the treatment of transfusion-dependent (TD) anemia in adult patients with low-to-intermediate-1 risk Myelodysplastic syndromes (LR-MDS)
- 12 Feb 2024 Geron in collaboration with Children's Oncology Group plans a phase I trial in Acute myeloid leukemia and Myelodysplastic syndrome (Second line therapy or greater, Combination therapy, In children, In adolescents, In infants, In adults) in July 2024 (IV) (NCT06247787)
- 09 Dec 2023 Efficacy data from a phase II/III IMerge trial in Myelodysplastic syndromes presented at the 65th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition (ASH-Hem-2023)