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SAN DIEGO, Dec. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- TargeGen, Inc. today announced that
the Company's recently submitted IND for TG101348 is now active and the
Company plans to initiate a multi-center clinical trial of TG101348, an
internally discovered, oral, potent, and highly selective JAK2 inhibitor in
January, 2008. Additionally, TargeGen announced that a series of
presentations related to TG101348 will be made at the 2007 ASH Conference
(Atlanta, December 8-11, 2007) by Company scientific staff and outside
academic collaborators.
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Scheduled ASH presentations include:
-- Catriona Jamieson -- Selective Inhibition of JAK2 Driven Erythroid
Differentiation of Polycythemia Vera
-- Animesh Pardanani & Ayalew Tefferi -- Primary Cell Experiments with
TG101348, A JAK2 Selective Small Molecule Inhibitor, in the Presence of
Myeloproliferative Disorder-Associated JAK2V617F, MPLW515K, or Exon 12
Mutations
-- Gerlinde Wernig & Gary Gilliland -- Efficacy of TG101348, a Selective
JAK2 Inhibitor, in Treatment of a Murine Model of JAK2V617F-Induced
Polycythemia Vera, Session Type
-- Betty Tam -- TG101348: A Dual Acting JAK2/FLT3 Small Molecule Kinase
Inhibitor for the Treatment of AML
-- John Hood -- Prospective Identification of Resistance Mutants to the
JAK2 Inhibitor TG101348
The V617F mutation of JAK2 is implicated in the pathogenesis of certain
myeloproliferative diseases, including polycythemia vera (PV), essential
thrombocytopenia (ET) and primary myelofibrosis (PMF). In preclinical
models of myeloproliferative diseases, TG101348, administered orally, was
shown to reduce to reduce V617F expressing cell populations in a
dose-dependant manner without adversely impacting normal hematopoeisis. The
reduction of V
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