MINNEAPOLIS, March 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Celcuity Inc. (Nasdaq: CELC), a clinical-stage biotechnology company pursuing development of targeted therapies for oncology, today announced publication of efficacy and safety results from the PIK3CA wild-type (“WT”) cohort of the Phase 3 VIKTORIA-1 clinical trial of gedatolisib, an investigational pan-PI3K/mTORC1/2 inhibitor, in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. The cohort consists of patients with hormone receptor positive (“HR+”), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 negative (“HER2-”) PIK3CA WT advanced breast cancer (“ABC”), following progression on or after treatment with a CDK4/6 inhibitor and an aromatase inhibitor.
The publication is titled “VIKTORIA-1 Trial of Gedatolisib Plus Fulvestrant With or Without Palbociclib in Hormone Receptor-Positive/HER2-/PIK3CA Wild-Type Advanced Breast Cancer.”
“VIKTORIA-1 is the first Phase 3 study to show a significant improvement in median progression-free survival with inhibition of the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway in patients with PIK3CA wild-type HR+/HER2- advanced breast cancer who previously received a CDK4/6 inhibitor,” said Sara Hurvitz, MD, lead study author and Senior Vice President, Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Smith Family Endowed Chair in Women’s Health, Professor and Head, Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Washington, Department of Medicine.
In the PIK3CA WT cohort of the Phase 3 VIKTORIA-1 trial, median progression-free survival (“PFS”) with the gedatolisib triplet was 9.3 months versus 2.0 months with fulvestrant, an incremental improvement of 7.3 months (HR=0.24; 95% CI: 0.17-0.35; p