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Aprea Therapeutics Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2020 Financial Results and Provides Update on Business Operations
BOSTON, March 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aprea Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: APRE), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing
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[{"type":"text","content":"BOSTON, March 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aprea Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: APRE), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing novel cancer therapeutics that reactivate the mutant tumor suppressor protein, p53, today reported financial results for the three months and year ended December 31, 2020 and provided a business update. “Though disappointed the topline complete remission rate from the Phase 3 clinical trial narrowly missed its primary endpoint, we continue to analyze the totality of the data from the study to understand those differences from our prior Phase 2 experience in frontline MDS patients and expect to present these findings in the second quarter of 2021,” said Christian S. Schade, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Aprea. “Our dedicated team remains committed to the clinical development of eprenetapopt and our next generation, oral p53 reactivator, APR-548, in hematological and solid tumor malignancies. In 2021, we look forward to sharing data from our current clinical studies as well as our plans to expand the clinical pipeline to include new indications.” Business Operations Update: The Company is conducting, supporting, and planning multiple clinical trials of eprenetapopt (APR-246) and APR-548: Pivotal Phase 3 MDS Trial—In December 2020, the Company announced its pivotal Phase 3 randomized, controlled trial evaluating eprenetapopt with azacitidine as frontline therapy in HMA-naïve TP53 mutant myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) patients failed to meet its predefined primary endpoint of complete remission (CR) rate. Analysis of the primary endpoint at this data cut demonstrated a 53% higher number of patients achieving a CR in the experimental arm receiving eprenetapopt with azacitidine versus the control arm receiving azacitidine alone but did not reach statistical significance. The Company is completing analysis from this Phase 3 clinical trial and expects to present additional information in the second quarter of 2021.Phase 2 MDS/AML Post-Transplant Trial – The Company has completed enrollment of 33 patients in a single-arm, open-label Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating eprenetapopt with azacitidine as post-transplant maintenance therapy in TP53 mutant MDS and AML patients who have received an allogeneic stem cell transplant. The Company anticipates initial results from the prima...