Sensei Biotherapeutics Announces Acquisition of Faeth Therapeutics and $200M Concurrent Private Placement
“In the PI3K pathway, the field has repeatedly run into the same constraint. Single-node inhibitors force a tradeoff between efficacy and tolerability,” said Anand Parikh, Co-founder of Faeth Therapeutics and new Chief Operating Officer and director of Sensei. “PIKTOR is designed to change that tradeoff by inhibiting PI3K-alpha and mTORC1/2 simultaneously, and we believe we can achieve more complete pathway suppression with improved tolerability. We saw the signal in our Phase 1b, including a number of complete responses in endometrial cancer patients after multiple prior lines of therapy. This financing takes us through topline Phase 2 data in that population and advances the Phase 1b breast cancer program.”
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