SELLAS Life Sciences to Present In Vivo Preclinical Data Demonstrating Statistically Significant Survival Benefit of SLS009 in T-Cell Prolymphocytic Leukemia at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2025
Preclinical data support SLS009 as a monotherapy or in combination with venetoclax for the treatment of T-PLL, a rare and highly aggressive form of mature T-cell leukemia
NEW YORK, Oct. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SELLAS Life Sciences Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLS) (“SELLAS’’ or the “Company”), a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel therapies for a broad range of cancer indications, today announced that preclinical efficacy of its highly selective CDK9 inhibitor, SLS009 (tambiciclib), as a monotherapy and in combination with venetoclax in T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia (T-PLL), will be presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2025, being held October 17 – 21, 2025, in Berlin, Germany.
The results highlight an in vivo patient-derived xenograft (PDX) model of relapsed/refractory T-PLL that reproduced key human clinicopathological features of the disease. In this model, SLS009 demonstrated meaningful single-agent activity as well as in combination with the BCL2 inhibitor venetoclax. Both SLS009 monotherapy and the combination prolonged overall survival (7.4 weeks and 7.9 weeks, respectively) compared to venetoclax alone (4.4 weeks), a difference that was statistically significant (p
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