Eisai and PIQUR team up for breast cancer drug trials

17 February 2016

Japanese drug major Eisai (TYO: 4523) is teaming up with Swiss firm PIQUR Therapeutics to carry out a Phase I/IIb clinical study investigating PQR309 in combination with Halaven (eribulin) in patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).

PQR309 is currently engaged in multiple Phase I and Phase II studies as a single agent and has shown promising activity.

The combination of a PI3K/mTOR inhibitor with eribulin may prove to be an effective treatment in second line therapy for locally advanced or metastatic TNBC patients.

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