TG Therapeutics Announces Data Presentations at the 25th European Hematology Association (EHA) Annual Congress

NEW YORK, June 12, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TG Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: TGTX), today announced data presentations at the 25^th European Hematology Association (EHA) annual congress including data from a Phase 1 study evaluating TG-1701, the Company’s once daily, selective, BTK inhibitor, as monotherapy and in combination with umbralisib and ublituximab (U2) in relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and lymphoma, as well as long term data from a Phase 1/1b study evaluating the combination of umbralisib and ibrutinib in relapsed/refractory CLL and mantle cell lymphoma (MCL).   

Michael S. Weiss, the Company’s Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer stated, “We have long been excited about the potential for dual BCR blockade by targeting both PI3K-delta and BTK in the treatment of hematologic malignancies, and these data presentations offer insight into the therapeutic potential for this dual targeted approach. We are extremely pleased to see that TG-1701 continues to exhibit an encouraging safety and efficacy profile, both as a monotherapy and in our proprietary triplet combination with U2, with additional patients now treated and with longer follow-up. We now have patients on TG-1701 for upwards of 1.5 years, with no patients having discontinued therapy due to toxicity and responses deepening over time. We were also excited to see long-term data for the all-oral combination of umbralisib and ibrutinib, which similarly demonstrated continued improvement in overall response rates, and importantly identified no long-term safety signals at over 3.5 years of follow-up, underscoring the potential combinability of umbralisib with BTK therapy.”  Mr. Weiss continued, “In striving towards our goal of developing novel combination treatments for patients with unmet medical needs, we are highly encouraged by the data presented today and look forward to continuing dose escalation for our proprietary triple combination of ublituximab, umbralisib and TG-1701.”  

Details of the data presentations are included below.

Presentation Title: Safety and activity of the once daily selective bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor TG-1701 in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and lymphoma

This presentation includes interim data from a Phase 1 parallel dose-escalation study of TG-1701 monotherapy and TG-1701 in combination with U2 in 82 patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell malignancies. Sixty-nine patients were treated with single agent TG-1701, of which 25 patients were treated in the monotherapy dose escalation portion of the study and received TG-1701 at doses that ranged from 100mg to 400mg once daily, and 44 patients were treated with 200mg of TG-1701 in the monotherapy dose expansion cohort. An additional 13 patients were treated in the TG-1701 plus U2 dose escalation portion of the study.