LIXTE Provides Update On Progress With LB-100 As A PP2A Inhibitor To Enhance Chemotherapy And Immunotherapy Cancer Treatments

Author: Benzinga Newsdesk | March 21, 2024 08:35am

-- Three Clinical Trials Currently Underway for Treating Ovarian, Lung and Sarcoma Cancers --

PASADENA, Calif., March 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LIXTE Biotechnology Holdings, Inc. ("LIXTE" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:LIXT), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing a new class of cancer therapy to enhance chemotherapy and immunotherapy, today provided an update on the Company's progress with its proprietary compound, LB-100.

"Clinical trials are underway at leading cancer centers in the United States and Spain using LB-100 in combination with chemotherapy and immunotherapy that we are hopeful will provide new and effective treatment options for patients with lung, ovarian and sarcoma cancers," said Bas van der Baan, LIXTE's President and Chief Executive Officer.

Clinical trials are taking place at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer (ovarian clear cell carcinoma); City of Hope Cancer Center and the Sarah Cannon Research Institute (small cell lung cancer); and the Spanish Sarcoma Group (advanced soft tissue sarcoma).

Click here for a brief video overview by LIXTE's Chief Executive Officer.

LIXTE recently announced the following significant developments:

• The dosing of the first patient in a Phase 1b/2 clinical trial to assess whether adding LB-100 to GSK's dostarlimab-gxly will enhance the effectiveness of immunotherapy in the treatment of ovarian clear cell carcinoma (OCCC). The clinical trial was initiated by, and is being conducted at, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. LIXTE is providing LB-100, and GSK is providing dostarlimab-gxly and financial support.
• The signing of an exclusive patent license agreement with the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the National Cancer Institute, each an Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). LIXTE has licensed NIH's intellectual property rights under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement that, focused on LB-100 promoting anti-cancer activity alone and in combination with immune checkpoint inhibitors.
  
   
• On February 28, 2024, René Bernards, PhD, a leader in the field of molecular carcinogenesis and Senior Staff Scientist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, presented new pre-clinical data at the Joint Conference of European and American Associations for Cancer Research in Dublin, Ireland on how stress imposed onto colon cancer cells by LB-100 drives cancer cells to evolve to less cancerous behavior, underscoring a unique mechanism of action of LB-100. Dr. Bernards is a member of the Board of Directors of LIXTE.
  
   

Filing of Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023

Additional information with respect to LIXTE's business, clinical trials and financial condition is contained in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, which has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov.

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