Hong Kong, Shanghai & Florham Park, NJ — Thursday, March 6, 2025: HUTCHMED (China) Limited (“HUTCHMED”) (Nasdaq/AIM:HCM; HKEX:13) today announces that it has completed enrollment of its a Phase II trial of fanregratinib (HMPL-453) for intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (“IHCC”) patients with fibroblast growth factor receptor (“FGFR”)2 fusion/rearrangement.
The study is a single-arm, multi-center, open-label, Phase II registration study to evaluate the efficacy, safety and pharmacokinetic of fanregratinib in treating advanced IHCC patients with FGFR2 fusion/rearrangement. Primary endpoint is objective response rate (ORR). Secondary endpoints include progression-free survival (PFS), disease control rate (DCR), duration of response (DoR) and overall survival (OS). A total of 87 patients were enrolled into the registration phase of the study. Additional details may be found at clinicaltrials.gov using identifier NCT04353375.
The first patient received the first dose in March 2023 and HUTCHMED expects to announce topline results from the study around the end of 2025. If favorable, the results could enable a New Drug Application submission to China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA).
Fanregratinib (HMPL‑453) is a novel, highly selective and potent inhibitor targeting FGFR 1, 2 and 3. Aberrant FGFR signaling has been found to be a driving force in tumor growth, promotion of angiogenesis and resistance to anti-tumor therapies. Abnormal FGFR gene alterations are believed to be the drivers of tumor cell proliferation in several solid tumor settings.
HUTCHMED currently retain all rights to fanregratinib worldwide.
IHCC is one of the subtypes of primary bile duct cancer. In China, an estimated 61,900 newly diagnosed IHCC occurred in 2015 and the overall IHCC incidence increased by 9.2% per year between 2006 and 2015.[1] FGFR2 fusion has been reported to have a prevalence of 10-15% in IHCC patients.[2],[3]
HUTCHMED (Nasdaq/AIM:HCM; HKEX:13) is an innovative, commercial-stage, biopharmaceutical company. It is committed to the discovery and global development and commercialization of targeted therapies and immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and immunological diseases. Since inception it has focused on bringing drug candidates from in-house discovery to patients around the world, with its first three medicines marketed in China, the first of which is also approved in the US, Europe and Japan. For more information, please visit: www.hutch‑med.com or follow us on LinkedIn.
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