Forma Therapeutics Announces Positive FT-4202 600 mg Multiple Ascending Dose Cohort Data Supporting the Doses Being Evaluated in Phase 2/3 Registrational Trial, Called the Hibiscus Study

WATERTOWN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Forma Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: FMTX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on rare hematologic diseases and cancers, today announced new data from its ongoing randomized, placebo-controlled, multi-center Phase 1 trial of FT-4202 in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) that further support the development of this novel investigational agent, a selective red blood cell (RBC) pyruvate kinase-R (PKR) activator, as a potential disease-modifying therapy. Data previously presented at the 2020 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting were based on the first cohort of patients in the Phase 1 trial dosed with 300 mg of FT-4202 or placebo once daily for 14 days and a 7-day follow up period. The new findings include an analysis of the blinded data from the second cohort of patients randomly assigned to receive 600 mg of FT-4202 or placebo once daily for 14 days and a 7-day follow up period.