TOTAL SYNTHESIS AND NONCLINICAL STUDY RESULTS OF A NOVEL ANTICANCER DRUG CANDIDATE E7130 DERIVED FROM TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF HALICHONDRIN FOUND IN JOINT RESEARCH BETWEEN EISAI AND HARVARD UNIVERSITY SCIENTISTS, PUBLISHED IN SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, CEO: Haruo Naito, “Eisai”) announced today that a joint research group including scientists from Eisai and Professor Yoshito Kishi’s group of Harvard University has achieved a total synthesis and obtained results of nonclinical studies of the novel compound, E7130, derived from total synthesis of halichondrin. These results have been published in?Scientific Reports, a scientific journal of?Nature.1?Currently a Phase I study to investigate E7130 in solid tumor is underway in Japan.