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Dr Nathaniel Calloway

Sunesis Pharmaceuticals - First signs of efficacy coming up

Sunesis is currently in the dose-escalation portion of the Phase Ib/II study of its BTK inhibitor vecabrutinib, and the first signs of clinical efficacy are expected in the upcoming doses. The drug is being tested in a range of B-cell malignancies where BTK inhibitors have historically shown some activity. The company will provide its next clinical update at the European Hematology Association (EHA) Congress in June 2019. In this note we review the clinical data to date and provide our clinical outlook.
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Sunesis Pharmaceuticals

Sunesis Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of new targeted inhibitors for the treatment of solid and hematologic cancers. The company's primary activities are conducting research and development internally and through corporate collaborators, in-licensing and out-licensing pharmaceutical compounds and technology and conducting clinical trials. The company's primary program is vecabrutinib, a non-covalent inhibitor of Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase. The company is also developing SNS-510, a phosphoinositide-dependent kinase-1 inhibitor licensed from Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited.

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