Nuvectis Pharma, Inc. Announces a Collaboration with Mayo Clinic to Evaluate NXP800 in an Investigator-Sponsored Clinical Trial in Cholangiocarcinoma

• Mitesh Borad, M.D., will serve as the Principal Investigator for the clinical trial
• The Investigator-sponsored clinical trial follows the robust preclinical proof of concept data generated by investigators from Mayo Clinic in PDX models of cholangiocarcinoma (presented at the 2023 American Association for Cancer Research ("AACR"))
• NXP800 was granted orphan drug designation by the FDA for the treatment of cholangiocarcinoma in August 2023

Fort Lee, NJ, Dec. 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nuvectis Pharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: NVCT) ("Nuvectis" or the "Company"), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of innovative precision medicines for the treatment of serious conditions of unmet medical need in oncology, today announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to evaluate NXP800 in an Investigator-sponsored clinical trial in cholangiocarcinoma. Mitesh Borad, M.D., an oncologist at Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center in Arizona, will serve as the principal investigator for the trial.

"We are honored to announce this collaboration with Mayo Clinic," said Ron Bentsur, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nuvectis. "Similar to platinum resistant, ARID1a-mutated ovarian cancer, this clinical development program in cholangiocarcinoma represents another opportunity for NXP800 in a serious condition of unmet medical need and we are very hopeful that the robust activity seen in the cholangiocarcinoma PDX models will be translated into clinical activity in humans."

About Cholangiocarcinoma

Cholangiocarcinoma is a cancer of the biliary tract originating in the epithelium of the biliary tree accounting for approximately 3% of all gastrointestinal malignancies, with an annual incidence of approximately 8,000 – 10,000 in the United States. Surgical resection is the only potentially curative treatment for cholangiocarcinoma, but the disease is often diagnosed as unresectable because of local extension and/or metastases. While several targeted therapies have been approved in recent years for subsets of patients with cholangiocarcinoma based on specific tumor genetics, the overall prognosis remains poor with 5-year survival rates of 20-50% after resection and almost 0% in unresectable tumors.

About Nuvectis Pharma, Inc.

Nuvectis Pharma, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of innovative precision medicines for the treatment of serious conditions of unmet medical need in oncology. The Company is currently developing two drug candidates, NXP800 and NXP900. NXP800 is an oral small molecule currently in a Phase 1b clinical trial investigating its potential to treat platinum resistant, ARID1a-mutated ovarian carcinoma. The FDA granted Fast Track Designation to the NXP800 development program in platinum resistant, ARID1a-mutated ovarian carcinoma, and Orphan Drug Designation for the treatment of cholangiocarcinoma. NXP900 is an oral small molecule SRC/YES1 kinase family (SFK) inhibitor currently in a Phase 1a dose escalation clinical trial.

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