Discovery of Potent and Selective Bivalent CDK2 Degraders that Demonstrate Activity in CCNE1amp Driven Tumors

Presentation

AACR

June 27, 2024

The Cyclin-Dependent Kinases (CDKs) with their cyclin binding partners, are associated with cell cycle progression and transcriptional regulation. Targeting CDKs is a key oncology therapeutic strategy with CDK4/6 inhibitors demonstrating significant clinical benefit in HR+/HER2- metastatic breast cancer, the most prevalent subtype. However, 30% of patients develop acquired resistance in the clinic. Cyclin E1 (CCNE1) amplification/overexpression and CDK2 activation is a major resistance mechanism in CDK4/6i breast cancer therapy. Additionally, CCNE1/CDK2 activation has also been associated with poor prognosis in ovarian and endometrial cancers. Currently, targeting CDK2 using small molecule inhibitorbased approaches have advanced into the clinic. Targeted protein degradation of CDK2 provides an alternative strategy that has the potential to eliminate the activity of the CCNE1/CDK2 complex, as well as CDK2 complexed with other cyclins, including cyclin A, and provide improved clinical benefit…