DOYLESTOWN, Pa., Oct. 24, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aprea Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: APRE) (“Aprea”, or the “Company”), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on precision oncology through synthetic lethality, today announced it will host a KOL event on Tuesday, October 31, 2023 at 11:00 am ET. The program will feature Dr. Fiona Simpkins, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Timothy A. Yap, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, who will discuss the current landscape of treatments and investigational drugs for patients with advanced solid tumors and their role in tumor suppression.
The Aprea Therapeutics team will discuss the Phase 1/2a study evaluating its lead program of a highly potent and selective macrocyclic inhibitor of ataxia telangiectasia and Rad3-related (ATR), ATRN-119, in patients with advanced solid tumors having mutations in defined DDR genes. The event will also highlight Aprea’s pre-clinical WEE1 inhibitor, ATRN-1051, with IND filing anticipated by the end of 2023, including the clinical development strategy for the study of ATRN-1051
A live question and answer period will follow the presentations. The session will be available for replay on the News and Events portion of the Investor Relations section of the company’s website. To register for the event, please click here.
About Fiona Simpkins, M.D.
Dr. Fiona Simpkins is a Professor in the Division of Gynecology Oncology and Department of OB-GYN at the University of Pennsylvania. She is Director of Preclinical Drug Development for the Ovarian Cancer Research Center and a member on the Phase I/Developmental Therapeutics Committee for Gynecological Cancers for the NRG Cooperative Group. Dr. Simpkins completed her OB-GYN residency at Johns Hopkins University and Gynecology Oncology Surgical fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. She is board certified in GOB-GYN and Gynecology Oncology. a surgeon and specializes in gynecological cancer surgeries. Her laboratory’s focus is developing strategies to circumvent drug resistance in gynecological cancers. Dr. Simpkins completed a Cancer Research Training in basic science focusing on ovarian cancer signal transduction at the National Cancer Institute. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Miami studying ant-estrogen resistance in ovarian cancer. Dr. Simpkins is also a principal investigator for early phase ovarian cancer clinical trials evaluating novel therapies emanating from her laboratory.
About Timothy A. Yap, MBBS, PhD, FRCP
Dr. Timothy Yap is a Medical Oncology Physician-Scientist and Professor based at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He is a Professor in the Department for Investigational Cancer Therapeutics (Phase I Program), and the Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology. Dr. Yap is Vice President and Head of Clinical Development in the Therapeutics Discovery Division, a drug discovery biopharmaceutical division where drug discovery and clinical translation are seamlessly integrated. He is also the Associate Director of Translational Research in the Institute for Personalized Cancer Therapy, which is an integrated research and clinical trials program aimed at implementing personalized cancer therapy and improving patient outcomes. Dr. Yap’s main research focuses on the first-in-human and combinatorial development of molecularly targeted agents and immunotherapies, and their acceleration through clinical studies using novel predictive and pharmacodynamic biomarkers. His main interests include the targeting of the DNA damage respons (DDR) with novel therapeutics, such as ATR, PARP1, WEE1, POLQ, USP1, PARG, CHK1, ATM, and DNA-PK inhibitors, next generation CDK4 and CDK1-selective inhibitors, YAP/TEAD inhibitors, as well as the development of novel immunotherapeutics. Prior to his current position, Dr. Yap was a Consultant Medical Oncologist at The Royal Marsden Hospital in London, UK and National Institute for Health Research BRC Clinician Scientist at the Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK.
About Aprea
Aprea Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, focused on precision oncology through synthetic lethality. The Company’s lead program is ATRN-119, a clinical-stage small molecule ATR inhibitor in development for solid tumor indications. Our oral, small molecule WEE1 inhibitor is being advanced to IND submission. For more information, please visit the company website at www.aprea.com.
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LifeSci Advisors
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