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Targeting Disease at the Nuclear Pore |
Karyopharm Announces Favorable Change in Co-Primary Endpoint for
Pivotal Phase 3
SENTRY Trial in Myelofibrosis
Co-primary Endpoint Changed to Absolute Total Symptom Score
(Abs-TSS) from Total Symptom Score
Improvement of ≥ 50% (TSS50)
Following Alignment with the FDA
Spleen Volume Response Rate ≥ 35% (SVR35) Remains a Co-primary Endpoint
Promising Improvement in Abs-TSS and SVR35 from Phase 1 Trial of Selinexor in Combination
with
Ruxolitinib Adds Confidence in Phase 3 SENTRY Trial
Proactively Increasing Total Sample Size of the SENTRY Trial to Approximately 350 Patients to Further
Increase the Statistical Powering; Expected Top-line Data
Read-out Remains in 2H 2025
Company to Host a Conference Call Today at 8:00 a.m. ET
Featuring Drs. Raajit Rampal and John
Mascarenhas
NEWTON, Mass. October 31, 2024 Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: KPTI), a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company pioneering novel
cancer therapies, today announced that, following feedback from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Company will be replacing TSS50, one of the co-primary endpoints in the Phase 3 SENTRY Trial
(NCT04562389) with Abs-TSS. Abs-TSS measures the average improvement in patient symptom scores over 24 weeks relative to the patients baseline symptom score.
There remains a tremendous unmet need in myelofibrosis, as less than half of patients achieve SVR35 with each of the approved JAK inhibitors and many
patients eventually stop responding to these treatments, said Dr. Raajit Rampal, Director of the Center for Hematologic Malignancies and Director of the Myeloproliferative Neoplasms Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
The Phase 1 trial, which evaluates the combination of selinexor and ruxolitinib, shows an approximate doubling of SVR35 to nearly 80% compared to historical JAKi monotherapy, and meaningful improvements in
Abs-TSS with an average 18.5 point improvement at week 24 compared to baseline. I believe these data are meaningful and impressive and provide a strong rationale for the Phase 3 SENTRY trial.
Data from the Companys Phase 1 trial, evaluating the combination of selinexor 60mg plus ruxolitinib in JAKi naïve myelofibrosis patients,
demonstrated that 79% of patients in the intent to treat population (n=14) achieved SVR35 and an average Abs-TSS improvement of 18.5 points in the efficacy evaluable population (n=9), at week 24 relative to
baseline. Acknowledging the small sample size, these data are favorable to historical ruxolitinib monotherapy data which indicates that less than half of patients achieve SVR35 and an Abs-TSS improvement of 11
to 14 points1. The safety profile remains consistent and no new safety signals have been identified.
Our confidence in the success of our Phase 3 SENTRY trial increases based on the change in the co-primary
endpoint to Abs-TSS, the increased sample size and the data previously presented from our Phase 1 trial evaluating selinexor plus ruxolitinib in JAKi naïve myelofibrosis patients, said Reshma
Rangwala, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer and Head of Research at Karyopharm. Based upon strong enrollment, we remain on track to report top-line results in the second half of 2025.