Foghorn attracts second clinical hold from FDA

24 August 2022
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US cancer-focused biotech Foghorn Therapeutics (Nasdaq: FHTX) saw its shares plummet 25% to $11.00 by close of trading yesterday, after it announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has placed a full clinical hold on the Phase I dose escalation study of FHD-286, an inhibitor of BRG1/BRM, in relapsed and/or refractory acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS).

The dose escalation Phase I study of FHD-286 in metastatic uveal melanoma (mUM) continues per protocol. The company plans to report data from the mUM study in the first half of 2023.

This follows a partial clinical hold that the FDA imposed on trial in May this year, which saw the company’s share fall more than 20% at $9.09.

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