Geron Announces Fast Track Designation Granted to Imetelstat for Relapsed/Refractory Myelofibrosis MENLO PARK, Calif., Sept. 30, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Geron Corporation (Nasdaq: GERN) today announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation to imetelstat for the treatment of adult patients with Intermediate-2 or High-risk myelofibrosis (MF) whose […]
Imetelstat Active in Myeloproliferative Disorders
Essential thrombocythemia, myelofibrosis respond to telomere targeting Treatment with a drug that targets the chromosome-lengthening enzyme telomerase led to hematologic responses in all treated patients with essential thrombocythemia, a preliminary clinical trial showed. In 16 of 18 cases, patients achieved complete hematologic responses with imetelstat. Additionally, seven of eight patients with Janus kinase 2 (JAK2) […]
MPN Clinical Trial Highlights for Summer 2015
by mpdsupport.org Clinical Trials for MPNs are on the Rise! If you have MF, PV or ET but don’t need medication now, you may think that clinical trials don’t matter to you. But that could change, at which point you may want to review your options. Thankfully, over the past years the interest in developing […]
MPN Clinical Trial updates from Geron and Promedior
Geron announces removal of Full Clinical Hold on Imetelstat The full clinical hold on Geron’s sole pipeline candidate, investigation new drug (IND), Imetelstat, has been lifted by the FDA. The company does not intend to conduct further studies or develop imetelstat for the treatment of essential thrombocythemia (ET) or polycythemia vera (PV). The development plan […]
Imetelstat Trials for MF moves forward as FDA removes hold
Geron Corp announced today that the partial clinical hold on clinical trials of imetelstat in myelofibrosis has been removed by the FDA. The hold for essential thrombocythemia and polycythemia vera remains. Click here for the full story.