Oncothyreon Inc. (Nasdaq: ONTY) (the "Company") today announced that the Company's product candidate PX-866, a PI-3 kinase inhibitor, has been selected by Windhover Information, Inc., as one of the Top 10 most promising oncology projects in development that is available for partnering.
The selection was made by an independent committee assembled by Windhover Information, a leading provider of business information products and services to senior executives in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. As a selected company, Oncothyreon will present data on PX-866 at Windhover's Therapeutic Area Partnerships conference on November 17-19, 2009, in Boston, MA.
PX-866 is an inhibitor of the PI-3-kinase/PTEN/AKT pathway, an important survival signaling pathway that is activated in many types of human cancer. Oncothyreon is currently conducting a Phase 1 trial of PX-866 in patients with advanced metastatic cancer. Based upon the results seen in this trial to date, including the preliminary data presented at the American Society of Oncology Annual Meeting (ASCO) earlier this year, Oncothyreon has made the decision to move PX-866 into Phase 2 clinical development in the first half of 2010. The Phase 2 development program is currently expected to include two or more trials of PX-866 in combination with chemotherapy or other targeted agents and as a single agent.