Benzinga | Apr 12, 2021 08:03AM EDT

Kintara Highlights Updates On Two Phase 2 Clinical Trials Of VAL-083 At 2021 American Association For Cancer Research Annual Meeting

Kintara Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:KTRA) ("Kintara" or the "Company"), a biopharmaceutical company developing novel cancer therapies for patients who are failing, or resistant to, current treatment regimens, today announced interim data results from two Phase 2 clinical trials evaluating VAL-083, the Company's lead compound, for the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). The data were presented in two posters at the 2021 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting, which is taking place virtually from April 10-15, 2021.

Poster CT238 provides an update from two patient groups receiving VAL-083 in an open-label, Phase 2 study in recurrent and adjuvant unmethylated GBM settings being conducted at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. The second poster, CT172, updates the open-label, Phase 2 study of VAL-083 as a first-line treatment in newly-diagnosed, unmethylated GBM patients being conducted at Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center in China.

"These interim data updates at the AACR Annual Meeting continue to demonstrate VAL-083's potential as a game-changing treatment option for GBM patients," commented Saiid Zarrabian, Kintara's Chief Executive Officer. "Furthermore, it's important to note that both trials have provided valuable insights as we prepared to initiate the VAL-083 arm of the Global Coalition for Adaptive Research GBM AGILE registrational study which commenced patient enrollment in February 2021."