Lantern Pharma and Starlight Therapeutics Announce FDA Clearance of IND for a Planned Phase 1 Pediatric CNS Cancer Trial of STAR001

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News Source : Financial Post

News Summary

  • STAR-001 is a precision oncology compound.
  • The planned trial will evaluate STAR-001 as a single agent and in combination with spironolactone in pediatric patients with relapsed or refractory central nervous system (CNS) malignancies.
  • The trial is planned to be conducted in collaboration with POETIC — the Pediatric Oncology Experimental Therapeutics Investigators’ Consortium — a multicenter network of 14 leading academic children’s cancer centers across the United States, Canada, and Israel.
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