BridgeBio announces FDA clearance of IND application for BBO-8520

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In a milestone for supercomputing-aided drug design, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and BridgeBio Oncology Therapeutics today announced clinical trials have begun for a first-in-class medication that targets specific genetic mutations implicated in many types of cancer. The drug discovery work was powered by LLNL supercomputers Ruby (shown), Quartz and Lassen. Graphic by Amanda Levasseur.

BBO-8520’s discovery was the result of a collaboration between the RAS Initiative FNL, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and BridgeBio. It is specifically designed to provide patients afflicted with KRASG12C mutant cancers with a best-in-class, oral small molecule therapy that directly targets the tumor at its source – oncogenic KRASG12C GTP-bound (ON) signaling. Enrollment of patients with KRASG12C mutant non-small cell lung cancer into the ONKORAS-101 trial is expected to begin in H1 of this year.