Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Files IND for Phase 1b Study of ARO-HIF2 for Treatment of Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma
December 11, 2019 07:30 AM Eastern Standard Time
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Javier San Martin, M.D., chief medical officer at Arrowhead, said: “ARO-HIF2 is Arrowhead’s first TRiM™ enabled investigational RNAi therapeutic to target a cell type outside of the liver. Clear cell renal cell carcinoma, or ccRCC, is one of the most common forms of kidney cancer. Most patients with ccRCC have a mutation in the Von Hippel-Lindau gene, rendering them unable to degrade HIF-2α, which leads to accumulation during tumor hypoxia and promotes tumor growth. We believe this makes HIF-2α an attractive target for an RNAi-based intervention.”