NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / April 21, 2021 / Kadmon Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:KDMN) today announced the publication of results from KD025-208, the Phase 2a clinical trial of belumosudil (KD025) for chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD). The results were published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. A New Drug Application (NDA) for belumosudil is currently under Priority Review by the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients with cGVHD, with a Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) goal date of August 30, 2021.
"The results from our first clinical study in cGVHD demonstrated that belumosudil achieves meaningful, long-lasting responses and is very well tolerated in refractory cGVHD patients," said Harlan W. Waksal, M.D., President and CEO of Kadmon. "These positive results were replicated in the ROCKstar pivotal trial and support belumosudil's ability to offer meaningful clinical benefit, if approved, to patients with cGVHD, for which new therapies are urgently needed."
Results from KD025-208, the open-label, Phase 2a clinical trial of belumosudil, which enrolled 54 cGVHD patients who had received one to three prior lines of therapy, demonstrated a pooled Overall Response Rate (ORR) of 65% across the three patient cohorts. Responses were achieved across patient subgroups, including in patients with four or more organs involved. Responses were durable, with a median duration of 35 weeks in responders. In addition, 50% of responders experienced a clinically meaningful improvement in symptoms, as measured by at least a 7-point decrease in the Lee cGVHD Symptom Scale score. Belumosudil was also shown to be steroid sparing: 67% of all patients were able to reduce steroid doses and 19% of patients completely discontinued steroids. Belumosudil was well tolerated across all cohorts, with no drug-related serious adverse events and no increased risk of infection observed.
The publication, titled "ROCK2 Inhibition with Belumosudil (KD025) for the Treatment of Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease," is available online here as well as on the Kadmon website.
About Belumosudil
Belumosudil (KD025) is a selective oral inhibitor of Rho-associated coiled-coil kinase 2 (ROCK2), a signaling pathway that modulates inflammatory response and pro-fibrotic processes. The FDA granted Priority Review for the NDA for belumosudil for the treatment of cGVHD and assigned a PDUFA target action date of August 30, 2021. The NDA is being reviewed under the FDA's Real-Time Oncology Review (RTOR) and Project Orbis pilot programs. The FDA has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation to belumosudil for the treatment of patients with cGVHD after failure of two or more lines of systemic therapy as well as Orphan Drug Designation to belumosudil for the treatment of cGVHD.
About cGVHD
cGVHD is a common and often fatal complication following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. In cGVHD, transplanted immune cells (graft) attack the patient's cells (host), leading to inflammation and fibrosis in multiple tissues, including skin, mouth, eye, joints, liver, lung, esophagus and gastrointestinal tract. Approximately 14,000 patients in the United States are currently living with cGVHD.
About Kadmon
Kadmon is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and delivers transformative therapies for unmet medical needs. Kadmon's clinical pipeline includes treatments for immune and fibrotic diseases as well as immuno-oncology therapies.
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