*September 2020*
Curently, no FDA-approved treatments are available for patients with EGFR-mutant NSCLC who develop resistance to osimertinib, which is available for the first-line treatment of patients with EGFR-mutant NSCLC, and as a second-line treatment for patients with EGFR-mutant disease who acquire the T790M mutation. Therefore, there is an unmet need for novel therapies that can address this tumor resistance, according to Blueprint Medicines, the developer of BLU-945.2 For example, C797S is the most frequent on-target resistance mechanism to osimertinib.
BLU-945 is a fourth-generation EGFR TKI that potently inhibits triple-mutant EGFR that harbors either activated L858R or exon 19 deletion mutations, plus acquired T790M and C797S mutations, and selective to wild-type EGFR and kinome. BLU-945 is found to inhibit 1% of the kinome at more than 90% at a concentration of 3 μM, and a selectivity profile that enables combinations to cover a wide spectrum of resistant mechanisms. Read more.