Karuppiah Kannan, Senior Director – Global Program Leader at Takeda Pharmaceuticals, discusses early results of a phase 1/2 study evaluating subasumstat (TAK-981) in combination with rituximab in multiple subsets of CD20-positive relapsed/refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma including diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), follicular lymphoma (FL) and marginal zone lymphoma (MZL). The results of this study were recently presented at The American Society of Hematology Meeting & Exposition (ASH 2021).
Subasumstat is an investigational, first-in-class small-molecule inhibitor of SUMOylation, which mediates cell cycle progression. In preclinical trials, subasumstat was shown to add synergistic benefit when combined with rituximab in non-Hodgkin lymphoma models.
