AML

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive and highly proliferative form of blood cancer where the bone marrow generates abnormal myeloblasts (a type of white blood cell).

AML is the most common form of leukemia and progresses quickly if left untreated, leading to death within a few months after diagnosis. Various modalities of chemotherapy followed by allo-HCT in the cases associated with the most severe prognosis have improved disease free survival in xx% of AML patients.

A high unmet need remains to improve treatment outcomes through the prevention of relapses and transplant-related toxicities such as graft-versus-host disease (GvHD).

Despite progress in reducing transplant-related mortality, no major clinical improvements in post-transplant relapse incidences and overall survival have been achieved over the last four decades. Approximately 40% of post-HCT AML patients will relapse and face a dismal prognosis with a 2-year survival of less than 20%.

Mocravimod, a modulator of sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) receptors, has the potential to enhance the curative potential of allogeneic HCT in hematological malignancies in general and in AML specifically.