Preliminary Final Report and Annual Report YE 31 March 2026
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Amplia Therapeutics Ltd
ANNUAL REPORT
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Lakes Walk
Original Illustration by Lilian Darmono.
Reproduced with permission.
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Amplia Therapeutics recognises and respects
First Nations People and welcomes the
work of all those who strive for
health equality in Australia.
Contents
Letter from the Chairman ..........................................................................................4
CEO and MD Message .............................................................................................6
Year in Review .......................................................................................................... 8
ACCENT Trial in pancreatic cancer ................................................................... 12
Targeting kRAS ....................................................................................................... 14
Scaling Up .................................................................................................................. 16
The Next Wave of Targeted Therapy ...................................................................... 18
Financial Report ................................................................................................................ 20
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Letter from the Chairman
Dear Shareholders,
On behalf of the Board, I am delighted to present Amplia’s Annual Report for 2026.
The year has been marked by significant progress and accomplishments. The
Company is poised for further growth as we develop our pipeline. Our primary
objective is to advance clinical studies of narmafotinib in pancreatic cancer, as
well as supporting studies to generate robust data that will inform subsequent
clinical trials involving alternative combinations and facilitate expansion into new
therapeutic areas.
The ACCENT clinical trial has continued to deliver exciting data, offering new promise for
patients with pancreatic cancer and driving both Company growth and commercial interest.
The most recent data, reported to the market in March 2026, is another step in a long
journey and continues to underpin the scientific rationale that drove the original commitment
and investment in the potential of focal adhesion kinase inhibition (FAKi) in contributing to the
management of cancer.
Narmafotinib was discovered and had its early development within the Cancer Therapeutics Cooperative
Research Centre (CTxCRC) headquartered in Melbourne and licensed to Amplia in 2016. After completion
of the requisite safety and manufacturing studies, its first-in-human clinical study (Phase 1a) was completed
in Melbourne in 2020. In August 2022, the first patient with pancreatic cancer was enrolled in the ACCENT
Phase 1b dose-escalation trial. As this was the tail end of the Covid pandemic, recruitment was slower than
anticipated, with this stage of the trial formally completed in October 2023 with 15 patients enrolled. The Phase 2a
recruitment of ACCENT began in January 2024 and was fully enrolled by mid-February 2025 with a total of
55 patients on study. As of mid-March, four patients remain on trial and one patient is just completing
two years of treatment.
We describe in this report the very exciting mature data from the trial that was recently disclosed to the
market. These data show that across all measures, the combination of narmafotinib and the chemotherapies
gemcitabine and Abraxane®
performs better, based on historical data, than the chemotherapy alone.
This provides the continuing confidence for the Company to direct the required investment to progress
narmafotinib into the next stage of clinical studies. The CEO’s letter details the positive state of discussions with
the US FDA regarding the design and implementation of these later stage studies.
Our second clinical trial in pancreatic cancer, the AMPLICITY trial, began recruiting patients in Australia
this last year. This trial combined narmafotinib with the more aggressive chemotherapy FOLFIRINOX. This
chemotherapy has been more widely used in the United States and Europe than Australia, especially for
younger and fitter patients. The US trial sites for AMPLICITY completed initiation processes more slowly than
anticipated, with only two sites ready to recruit patients by the end of March 2026. Due to the early occurrence
of significant FOLFIRINOX-related toxicity, as determined by the clinical investigators, we recently elected to
discontinue recruitment into this trial. Five patients remain on the trial and are continuing on treatment, and
we are shifting our focus to initiate additional trials with other clinical combination treatments that have less
severe side-effect profiles.
The treatment landscape for pancreatic cancer has been rapidly evolving with a clear shift away from toxic
chemotherapy. Whilst this has been the mainstay of treatment for many years, new drugs targeted to specific
cancer-driving mutations are showing promise in clinical studies. These newer drugs (kRAS inhibitors, ADCs,
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cell therapies) have the potential to become new ‘standards-of-care’,
in many cases when combined with less toxic chemotherapy options
such as gemcitabine and Abraxane. We at Amplia are watching these
developments closely and firmly believe there is significant opportunity for narmafotinib
to be an integral part of this new paradigm of treatment. By breaking down the fibrosis in the tumour
microenvironment, enhancing immune activation, and by blocking resistance pathways, narmafotinib has
great potential to enhance the activity of these new treatments, increasing durability and depth of response.
Discussions with selected developers of these drugs are underway.
We are paying significant attention to other cancers that have attributes that present additional opportunities
for combination therapy with narmafotinib. One example, that we have discussed publicly, is ovarian cancer
which is often characterised by a fibrotic nature and resistance to standard-of-care chemotherapy. The efficacy
of, and tolerance to, narmafotinib in the ACCENT trial is also attracting attention from potential collaboration
partners that are interested in enhancing their therapeutic efficacy in other solid tumours.
We successfully raised $27.5 million to support our ongoing development activities and plans. We thank all our
shareholders, institutional and retail investors, who continue to support Amplia along this development path
and who show their commitment by that support.
As Chair, I could not ask for more commitment and contribution from my fellow directors. As CEO and
Managing Director, Chris Burns has been an inspirational leader for his team and has applied his combination
of scientific and business acumen to laying out the right pathways for Amplia within the changing oncological
scientific and business environment. We have a small, highly competent team dedicated to the success of
Amplia. The achievements of the past year are a glowing example of this performance. Like a good Board
should do, we regularly look inward at our skills and performance to assess how we need to adapt to the
changing external environment and growing success of Amplia. As we move into a more commercial phase
of our development we will continue to review Board capability and make-up.
Dr Warwick Tong
Independent Non-Executive Chair
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The ACCENT clinical trial
has continued to deliver
exciting data, offering
new promise for patients
with pancreatic cancer
and driving both
Company growth and
commercial interest.
Independent
Non-Executive Chair,
DR WARWICK TONG
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CEO and MD Message
This past year has been a watershed year for Amplia. As the ACCENT trial nears its end, the mature
data coming from independent analysis of the clinical imaging data clearly demonstrates that
narmafotinib is having a profound benefit for pancreatic cancer patients when combined with
standard-of-care chemotherapy. With such strong data for narmafotinib, we are now actively
planning for a registration-enabling study as well as exploring potential for additional clinical
opportunities. The potential for clinical and commercial success for our lead program is now
significantly enhanced.
The ACCENT trial, which explores the combination of narmafotinib with gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel
(Abraxane®
) in newly diagnosed patients with advanced (metastatic) pancreatic cancer, has been running for
over three years and we anticipate that the trial will be completed in Q3 this year. The study is an open-label
trial meaning that all patients receive narmafotinib and chemotherapy, and we benchmark activity against
historical data for the chemotherapy alone - we discuss the ACCENT data in more detail on page 12.
To generate clinical data that will support a registrational filing for approval of narmafotinib, we need to
conduct a controlled study where the activity of narmafotinib combined with gemcitabine and Abraxane
is compared to the activity of gemcitabine and Abraxane alone. Planning for this study is progressing
well, and this past year we worked with the US FDA and to achieve alignment on the clinical trial
approach to determine the optimal dose of narmafotinib. Additional meetings with the FDA will
be held in the coming months to address other questions related to the Phase 2b/3 study.
Our second study in pancreatic cancer also began over this last year. This trial is exploring
a combination of narmafotinib with the 4-drug combination chemotherapy, FOLFIRINOX,
again in newly diagnosed patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer. FOLFIRINOX, generally
considered a more aggressive treatment compared to gemcitabine and Abraxane used
in the ACCENT trial, is a more commonly used treatment option for metastatic pancreatic
cancer in the US and Europe, compared to Australia. The trial began in September 2025 at
two sites in Australia with two additional sites in the US opening in early 2026. In April this
year we announced discontinuation of recruitment into the trial because the FOLFIRINOX
backbone appeared to be too toxic, limiting our ability to escalate the dose of narmafotinib
to suitable levels. Five patients remain on study and important data will be generated from
this small patient group and will be reported in due course.
There is currently significant interest in the development of new drugs for pancreatic cancer.
This is largely driven by the promising clinical data being reported for a new class of drugs called
kRAS inhibitors. Whilst these drugs are showing promising efficacy in clinical studies, they still
need to penetrate the fibrotic microenvironment, safety and tolerability remain an issue, and drug
resistance has been shown to rapidly develop. Over this last year we have produced and reported data
from preclinical studies showing that narmafotinib improves responses to kRAS inhibitors by modulating
fibrosis and blocking emergent resistance pathways. We are speaking with potential collaborators regarding
proof-of-concept clinical studies combining narmafotinib with kRAS inhibitors with the goal of initiating a study
before the end of 2026.
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The team at Amplia,
along with our network
of consultants and
advisers, are working
tirelessly to progress
Amplia’s programs, and
specifically our lead drug
narmafotinib, toward
key clinical and
commercial milestones.
CEO and MD,
DR CHRISTOPHER BURNS
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As I write this letter, the Artemis II astronauts are on their return journey back to earth from their historic
navigation of the dark side of the moon, an incredible feat of science and engineering. The development
of new medicines is likewise a highly complex and multidisciplinary undertaking, requiring deep insights in
fundamental disease biology, chemistry and clinical science, along with input and strategic planning from
regulatory experts, intellectual property specialists, formulation and production scientists, and many others.
The team at Amplia, along with our network of consultants and advisers, are working tirelessly to progress
Amplia’s programs, and specifically our lead drug narmafotinib, toward key clinical and commercial milestones
and I thank them all for their unwavering commitment to our own ‘moonshot’.
I would like to express my gratitude to our shareholders and investors for your ongoing support and interest
in our efforts. Our goal remains to advance narmafotinib toward clinical success, thereby
enhancing the company’s commercial prospects and increasing shareholder value.
Dr Christopher Burns
CEO and MD
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Year in Review
Clinical Development Progress
Amplia’s clinical programs remained the central
focus of activities throughout the year. The
ACCENT trial, evaluating narmafotinib in combination
with the chemotherapies gemcitabine and
nab-paclitaxel in advanced pancreatic cancer,
continued to generate encouraging clinical data.
Updated analyses reported during the year
demonstrated continued improvement in key clinical
endpoints compared with historical benchmarks
for chemotherapy alone. The study has achieved
a confirmed objective response rate of 36%, while
median progression-free survival has reached
approximately 7.7 months, comparing favourably
with published results for standard chemotherapy
regimens. In addition, median overall survival has
reached 11.1 months, representing an approximate
two-month improvement compared to
chemotherapy alone.
Data from the ACCENT trial were presented to
the global oncology community at the ASCO
Gastrointestinal Cancer Symposium in January 2026.
Presentation at this prestigious specialist conference
highlights the growing interest in FAK inhibition as
a therapeutic strategy in pancreatic cancer and
reinforces the clinical progress being achieved
with narmafotinib.
In parallel with the continued development of
ACCENT, Amplia advanced its second pancreatic
cancer study, the AMPLICITY trial. This study
evaluates narmafotinib in combination with modified
FOLFIRINOX, a different chemotherapy regimen used
more frequently in the United States and parts of
Europe, than in Australia.
Following the observation of protocol-defined dose
limiting toxicities associated with the mFOLFIRINOX
chemotherapy regimen, Amplia discontinued further
recruitment to the AMPLICITY trial. Importantly, no
toxicity concerns were attributed to narmafotinib.
Patients already enrolled in the study continue
treatment with ongoing safety monitoring.
In light of these findings and the evolving treatment
landscape in pancreatic cancer, Amplia has elected
to discontinue development of the AMPLICITY study
and focus its resources on the ACCENT trial and
future combination approaches involving alternative,
less toxic therapeutic regimens.
Regulatory Progress
Amplia continued to work closely with regulators
to prepare the narmafotinib program for
later-stage development.
During the year, the Company received positive
feedback from the United States Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) following a Type D meeting
regarding the design of a planned registration-enabling
trial. The FDA supported the proposed two-dose
comparison strategy in the Phase 2b stage of the
study, providing important clarity for the next phase
of clinical development.
These regulatory interactions represent an
important step in defining the pathway toward
potential registration of narmafotinib for
pancreatic cancer.
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Manufacturing and
Operational Readiness
As Amplia prepares for later-stage
clinical development, significant progress
has been made in manufacturing and
operational activities.
In early 2026, the Company successfully completed
its first large-scale manufacturing campaign for
narmafotinib, producing approximately 13 kilograms
of active pharmaceutical ingredient under Good
Manufacturing Practice (GMP) conditions. This
milestone marks the successful transition of
manufacturing from a research and development
environment to a commercial-ready manufacturing
setting and provides sufficient drug supply to
support ongoing and planned clinical trials.
This progress in Chemistry, Manufacturing and
Controls (CMC) is a critical component of preparing
narmafotinib for larger clinical studies and future
regulatory submissions.
Intellectual Property and
Strategic Positioning
Amplia strengthened its intellectual property
portfolio during the year with the granting of
a key patent in the United States and other
countries, protecting the specific crystalline form of
narmafotinib currently being developed clinically.
The patent extends protection for the drug to at
least 2040 in major pharmaceutical markets.
The Company also expanded its international
capital markets presence. During the year Amplia
commenced trading on the OTCQB Venture Market
in the United States, improving accessibility for US
investors and supporting broader engagement with
the global biotechnology investment community.
In addition, Amplia extended its preclinical research
collaboration with Korean biotechnology company
Next & Bio. The collaboration continues to explore
the potential of combining FAK inhibitors with
emerging kRAS inhibitors, an area of growing interest
in oncology drug development.
Financial
Amplia strengthened its financial position
during the year through a combination of capital
raising activities and continued support from
government R&D incentives.
The Company successfully completed a capital
raising through a placement and share purchase
plan, providing additional funding to support the
continued development of narmafotinib and the
expansion of the Company’s clinical programs.
Amplia also received its annual R&D Tax Incentive
rebate, further strengthening the Company’s
balance sheet and supporting ongoing research
and development activities.
Looking Ahead
Amplia enters the coming year with
strong clinical momentum and multiple
near-term value drivers.
The continued maturation of the ACCENT dataset will
provide further insight into the clinical benefit of narmafotinib
in pancreatic cancer, whilst the Company explores clinical
development in combination with other treatment regimens in
pancreatic cancer and other solid tumour indications.
Together with growing regulatory alignment, strengthened
manufacturing capability and expanding international
engagement, these developments position Amplia to
advance narmafotinib toward the next phase of
clinical development and unlock the significant
potential of FAK inhibition in oncology.
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Year in Review
ASX Releases
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US Clinical Trial Activities for Narmafotinib Now Underway
ACCENT Data Update Presented at International Conference
Amplia Appoints Dr Jason Lickliter as Chief Medical Officer
ACCENT Trial Achieves Superiority over Chemotherapy Alone
Pathological Complete Response in Pancreatic Cancer Trial
Second Complete Response in ACCENT Pancreatic Cancer Trial
Amplia Gains US Ethics Approval for Pancreatic Cancer Trial
Additional Partial Response in Pancreatic Cancer Trial
Another Partial Response in ACCENT Pancreatic Cancer Trial
Amplia announces A$25m Placement and Launches A$2.5m SPP
Australian Ethics Clearance for Pancreatic Cancer Trial
Positive ACCENT Trial Topline Data Released
Amplia Share Purchase Plan Raises $2.65 Million
Australian Trial Sites Open for New Narmafotinib Trial
Narmafotinib Adopted as Nonproprietary Drug Name in USA
First Patient Dosed in New Pancreatic Cancer Trial
Patent Allowance for Key Narmafotinib Patent in US
April 2025
April 2025
May 2025
May 2025
June 2025
June 2025
June 2025
July 2025
July 2025
July 2025
July 2025
August 2025
August 2025
August 2025
September 2025
September 2025
September 2025
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Additional Responses in ACCENT Pancreatic Cancer Trial
Amplia Therapeutics to Significantly Expand U.S. Presence
Amplia Receives R&D Tax Rebate Totalling $3.77 Million
Amplia Commences Trading on U.S. OTCQB Venture Market
Positive Response from US FDA to Amplia’s Type D Meeting
Key narmafotinib Patent Granted in the US
Additional Confirmed Response Reported-Investor Presentation
Amplia Enters 2nd Agreement with Drug Screening Co Next Bio
ACCENT Data Presented at 2026 ASCO GI Cancer Symposium
Narmafotinib Large-Scale Manufacture Complete
US Sites For AMPLICITY Pancreatic Cancer Trial Open
Benefit of Narmafotinib in kRas-Mutated Cancer Models
Amplia Reports Improved Responses and Survival in ACCENT trial
October 2025
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March 2026
ACCENT Trial
Maturing data show improved response and survival outcomes
Over the past year Amplia Therapeutics has continued to generate encouraging clinical data from
the ACCENT trial, further strengthening the evidence supporting narmafotinib as a potential new
treatment option for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer. Recent independently analysed mature
data have further strengthened these findings, demonstrating improvements in response rates and
overall survival.
The ACCENT study is evaluating Amplia’s lead drug candidate narmafotinib in combination with the
chemotherapy regimen gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel in patients with newly diagnosed metastatic
pancreatic cancer. The study is designed as a Phase 1b/2a trial and aims to determine whether the addition of
narmafotinib can enhance the effectiveness of standard-of-care chemotherapy.
Encouraging responses
Throughout the year the ACCENT trial has continued to demonstrate meaningful clinical activity.
The study has achieved a confirmed objective response rate of 36%, comparing favourably with the historical
response rate of around 23% reported for chemotherapy alone in similar patient populations, as
outlined in the benchmark MPACT trial upon which ACCENT is based. This updated response rate
reflects independent central review of the data using RECIST 1.1 criteria.
Median progression-free survival has also reached approximately 7.7 months, exceeding the
approximately 5.5 months typically reported for chemotherapy alone. In addition, median
overall survival has reached 11.1 months, representing an approximately two-month
improvement compared to chemotherapy alone.
Importantly, the treatment combination has maintained a favourable tolerability profile.
Adverse events observed in the trial have been broadly consistent with those expected
from chemotherapy alone, with no additional toxicity burden observed with the
addition of narmafotinib.
These results continue to support the hypothesis that FAK inhibition may enhance
the effectiveness of chemotherapy in pancreatic cancer, a disease where treatment
options remain limited and clinical outcomes are typically poor.
Growing international recognition
The progress of the ACCENT trial has attracted increasing attention from the
global oncology community.
Updated data from the study were presented at the ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancer
Symposium in January 2026, one of the leading international meetings focused on
gastrointestinal cancers. The Company was selected to present further mature ACCENT
data at the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in April
2026, reflecting growing international recognition of the program.
As additional patients continue to be followed in the study, the ACCENT dataset continues to mature
and provide important insight into the potential role of narmafotinib in pancreatic cancer treatment.
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Exceptional clinical
responses observed
During the year the ACCENT trial also delivered
several particularly notable clinical outcomes.
Amplia reported a complete pathological response,
meaning that following treatment no remaining viable
cancer cells were detected in tumour tissue removed
during surgery. Pathological complete responses are
extremely rare in pancreatic cancer and represent a highly
encouraging signal of treatment activity.
In addition, the trial has reported complete responses in
patients with advanced pancreatic cancer, where all
measurable evidence of tumour has disappeared following
treatment. Following independent central review, a total
of five complete responses have now been confirmed,
representing a complete response rate of 7.8% (5/64),
an unprecedented result in this indication.
Such outcomes are uncommon in metastatic
pancreatic cancer and highlight the potential for
the narmafotinib combination therapy to produce
deep and durable tumour responses in a
disease where meaningful clinical
breakthroughs remain urgently needed.
Targeting kRAS
A New Approach in Pancreatic Cancer Research
A new wave of kRAS-targeted therapies is driving renewed optimism in pancreatic cancer,
one of the most difficult cancers to treat. As the field evolves, attention is increasingly turning
toward combination strategies designed to improve durability of response and overcome
treatment resistance.
More than 90% of pancreatic cancers are driven by mutations in a gene known as kRAS, which plays
a central role in tumour growth and survival. Despite its importance, kRAS was long considered
“undruggable”, frustrating researchers and limiting treatment advances for patients with one of the
poorest survival rates in oncology.
That is now beginning to change.
Over the past few years, a new generation of kRAS-targeted therapies has entered clinical
development, with early studies showing encouraging improvements in patient outcomes.
Recent clinical data from advanced pancreatic cancer trials demonstrated survival outcomes
significantly beyond those historically achieved with chemotherapy alone — results many
experts have described as a major step forward for the field.
These advances are driving intense global activity in kRAS research, with more than 60
kRAS inhibitors currently in clinical development across multiple tumour types.
While these developments are highly promising, researchers increasingly believe that
targeting kRAS alone may not be enough to deliver durable long-term responses.
Pancreatic tumours are biologically complex. Dense fibrotic tissue surrounding
the tumour can limit drug penetration, while interactions within the tumour
microenvironment can promote localised immune-suppression. Further, resistance
to drug treatment develops over time.
As a result, the focus across the industry is rapidly shifting toward combination
approaches — pairing kRAS inhibitors with therapies designed to target other aspects
of tumour biology.
This emerging strategy is particularly relevant for Amplia.
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The Growing Potential of Combination Therapy in kRAS-Driven Cancer
As kRAS-targeted therapies continue to advance, increasing attention is turning toward combination
approaches designed to improve response rates, extend durability and address treatment resistance.
Amplia believes narmafotinib may have an important role to play within
this emerging treatment landscape.
Narmafotinib targets Focal Adhesion Kinase (FAK), a protein
closely associated with tumour fibrosis, cancer cell survival
and the tumour microenvironment in pancreatic cancer.
Research increasingly suggests that FAK signalling
may contribute to resistance mechanisms in
kRAS-driven tumours, making it a potentially
valuable complementary target alongside
kRAS inhibition.
Preclinical data presented by Amplia
at the AACR Special Conference on
RAS Oncogenesis and Therapeutics
demonstrated that narmafotinib
enhanced the activity of kRAS inhibitors
across multiple cancer models, including
pancreatic, lung and ovarian cancers. The
findings also suggested that narmafotinib
may help disrupt resistance pathways
that can emerge during kRAS inhibitor
treatment, with the potential to improve
both the depth and durability of
anti-tumour responses.
These findings align with a broader industry
shift toward combination-based strategies that
target multiple aspects of tumour biology, rather
than relying on single-agent therapies alone.
Amplia’s ongoing ACCENT clinical trial, evaluating
narmafotinib in combination with standard-of-care
chemotherapy in pancreatic cancer, reflect this broader
approach and continue to build understanding of the role
FAK inhibition may play in difficult-to-treat cancers.
As the field of kRAS-targeted therapy continues to evolve, Amplia believes narmafotinib has
considerable potential to contribute to the next generation of combination treatment strategies aimed
at improving outcomes for patients with kRAS-driven cancers.
Building the Case for
kRAS Combination
Strategies
Earlier this year, Amplia presented preclinical
data at the AACR Special Conference on RAS
Oncogenesis and Therapeutics demonstrating the
potential for narmafotinib to enhance the activity of
kRAS-targeted therapies across multiple cancer models.
The preclinical studies demonstrated:
• Enhanced tumour growth inhibition when
narmafotinib was combined with kRAS inhibitors
• Sustained tumour suppression in patient-derived
pancreatic cancer models
• Reduced kRAS signalling and disruption of
pathways linked to tumour proliferation
• Activity across multiple kRAS
mutation subtypes
The findings support the potential role
of FAK inhibition as part of future combination
strategies in kRAS-driven cancers.
Scaling Up
Amplia reaches large scale manufacturing milestone
As Amplia advances the clinical development of its lead FAK inhibitor, narmafotinib, the Company has
also been strengthening the manufacturing capabilities needed to support larger clinical trials and
future commercial supply.
Earlier this year, Amplia achieved an important milestone with the successful large-scale manufacture of
narmafotinib, marking a significant step in preparing the program for later-stage clinical development.
Working with its contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), the Company
transitioned production from a research and development environment to a commercial
manufacturing setting. The manufacturing campaign produced approximately 13 kilograms
of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) to the required purity and quality specifications.
The 13 kg batch represents roughly one-tenth of the anticipated com
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