OREANDA-NEWS. Sareum (AIM: SAR), the specialist cancer drug discovery and development business, is pleased to announce that the Chinese Patent Office and the Hong Kong Patents Registry have issued notifications that patents will be granted for inventions associated with Sareum's Aurora+FLT3 Kinase Inhibitor Programme.

These patents*describe compounds that inhibit the activity of Aurora and FLT3 kinase enzymes and the medical use of these compounds, particularly in the treatment of cancer. The granting of these patents means that Sareum will have approved patent protection in China and Hong Kong for its Aurora+FLT3 inhibitor programme. The Company announced that similar patents were to be granted in the USA and Europe in September 2015. Other major territories, including Japan, are expected to follow in due course.

Sareum's Aurora+FLT3 inhibitor programme targets acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) and other leukaemias and lymphomas. In disease models of AML, the preclinical development candidate molecule demonstrates greater than 98% tumour inhibition. Preclinical development studies to obtain approval for human clinical trials are being undertaken in collaboration with, and funded by, Hebei Medical University Biomedical Engineering Center (HMUBEC) in China.

* Chinese Patent Application no. 2013800135445, Hong Kong Patent no. 1204327

Sareum's CSO, Dr John Reader, commented: "These notifications of patent grants for Sareum in China and Hong Kong demonstrate the strength of intellectual property protecting our Aurora+FLT3 programme, and reinforces the patent position for HMUBEC, our development partner in China".

 

Sareum is a drug discovery and development company delivering targeted small molecule therapeutics, focusing on cancer and autoimmune disease, for licensing to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies at the preclinical or early clinical trials stage.

Sareum operates an outsourced research model, working with collaborators (SRI International, the CRT Pioneer Fund and Hebei Medical University Biomedical Engineering Center) and a world-wide network of research providers. Its research pipeline includes a programme in Phase I clinical trials and another undergoing pre-clinical IND-enabling studies.

SKIL(R) (Sareum Kinase Inhibitor Library) is Sareum's drug discovery technology platform that has so far produced the Company's Aurora+FLT3, Aurora+ALK, VEGFR-3, FLT3 & TYK2 kinase cancer and autoimmune disease research programmes. SKIL(R) can also generate drug research programmes against other kinase targets.