Blueprint Medicines Announces Proof-of-Concept Data for Highly Selective RET Inhibitor BLU-667 from Phase 1 ARROW Clinical Trial in Patients with RET-Altered Solid Tumors

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Blueprint Medicines Corporation (NASDAQ: BPMC), a leader in discovering and developing targeted kinase medicines for patients with genomically defined diseases, today announced proof-of-concept data from the ongoing Phase 1 ARROW clinical trial of BLU-667 in patients with RET-altered solid tumors.

Designed and developed by Blueprint Medicines, BLU-667 is a potent and highly selective inhibitor targeting oncogenic RET fusions and mutations, which are key drivers across multiple cancers, including subsets of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and medullary thyroid cancer (MTC). The data will be presented today in a clinical trials plenary session at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois.