Galecto Completes Strategic Review to Focus on Oncology and Liver Disease and Acquires AML Preclinical Asset from Bridge Medicines
“Our strategic review process concluded that our best opportunity for building value and changing the lives for patients with severe diseases was to focus on our existing clinical stage compound GB1211 and increase our chance for success by acquiring complementary assets. The addition of BRM-1420 represents a significant advancement in our mission to develop and deliver breakthrough treatments for oncology and liver conditions,” said Dr. Hans Schambye, CEO of Galecto. “We are particularly optimistic about BRM-1420’s potential to address challenging genetic subsets of AML and its observed synergistic effects with standard-of-care therapies and menin inhibitors.”
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