MADRID, Spain and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Oryzon Genomics, S.A. (ISIN Code: ES0167733015, ORY), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company leveraging epigenetics to develop therapies in diseases with strong unmet medical need, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation to the company’s clinical stage LSD1 inhibitor iadademstat for the treatment of patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Iadademstat is an oral, highly potent and selective inhibitor of the epigenetic enzyme LSD1, a chromatin remodeler that interacts with a variety of transcription factors involved in SCLC, other solid tumors and hematological cancers such as acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
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