Day One receives FDA rare paediatric disease designation for DAY101 for the treatment of paediatric low grade glioma

Day One Biopharmaceuticals

27 July 2021 - Day One Biopharmaceuticals today announced that the U.S. FDA has granted rare paediatric disease designation to the Company’s lead product candidate, DAY101, for the treatment of low-grade gliomas harbouring an activating RAF alteration that disproportionately affects children.

DAY101 is an investigational, oral, brain-penetrant, highly-selective type II pan-RAF kinase inhibitor designed to target a key enzyme in the MAPK signalling pathway.

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