HONG KONG, SHANGHAI, and FLORHAM PARK, N.J., Nov. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HUTCHMED (China) Limited (“HUTCHMED”) (Nasdaq/AIM:HCM; HKEX:13) today announces that new and updated data from the sovleplenib ESLIM-01 Phase III trial, as well as several investigator-initiated studies of compounds discovered by HUTCHMED will be presented at the American Society of Hematology (“ASH”) Annual Meeting taking place on December 7-10, 2024 in San Diego, USA, and the European Society for Medical Oncology (“ESMO”) Asia Congress 2024, taking place on December 6-8, 2024 in Singapore.

Long-term safety and efficacy data from a follow-on, open-label sub-study of the extension stage of ESLIM-01 Phase III study of sovleplenib in adult patients with chronic primary immune thrombocytopenia (“ITP”) in China will be reported at the 2024 ASH Annual Meeting (NCT05029635). At data cut-off on January 31, 2024, a total of 179 patients were treated with at least one dose of sovleplenib. 55.3% (99/179) of the patients were still on the treatment in the sub-study, with a median duration of exposure of 56.6 weeks.

The follow-on sub-study data demonstrated that long-term treatment with sovleplenib was effective in increasing and maintaining platelet count in adults with chronic primary ITP in China. In the overall population, the overall response was achieved by 81% (145/179) of the patients, with a durable response rate of 51.4% and long-term durable response rate of 59.8%. The median cumulative duration of platelet count ≥50×10⁹/L was 38.9 weeks. The long-term treatment was well tolerated, with a safety profile consistent with previous studies and no new safety signals were identified.

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HUTCHMED (Nasdaq/AIM:​HCM; HKEX:​13) is an innovative, commercial-stage, biopharmaceutical company. It is committed to the discovery, global development and commercialization of targeted therapies and immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and immunological diseases. It has approximately 5,000 personnel across all its companies, at the center of which is a team of about 1,800 in oncology/immunology. Since inception, HUTCHMED has focused on bringing cancer drug candidates from in-house discovery to patients around the world, with its first three medicines marketed in China, the first of which is also approved in the US, Europe and Japan. For more information, please visit: www.hutch-med.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

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