Alpha Tau Announces Acceptance Into FDA’s Total Product Life Cycle Advisory Program to Accelerate Market Access to Alpha DaRT® for Patients with Recurrent Glioblastoma Multiforme
21 October 2024 - 11:30PM
Alpha Tau Medical Ltd. ("Alpha Tau", or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:
DRTS, DRTSW), the developer of the innovative alpha-emitters cancer
therapy Alpha DaRT®, announced today that it has been accepted into
the prestigious Total Product Life Cycle (TPLC) Advisory Program
(“TAP”) Pilot of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), to
accelerate market access to the Alpha DaRT for patients with
recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (“GBM”). This acceptance follows
the Company’s previous receipt of Breakthrough Device Designation
from the FDA for this indication, one of two such designations
received for the Alpha DaRT, and a pre-requisite for application to
the TAP program.
TAP’s primary goal is to expedite and enable patient access to
innovative and highly promising medical devices which are not
currently on the market by providing early, frequent, and strategic
communications with the FDA, and by facilitating engagement with
other key parties for developers of devices of public health
importance, with an eye toward reducing the time, cost and
uncertainty of patient access through reimbursement and commercial
adoption following FDA authorization. To achieve this goal, a
dedicated cadre of FDA TAP advisors are selected to provide
tailored and solutions-focused assistance to advance these devices
to market and patient access, and to offer their expertise in areas
including product lifecycle regulation, payer coverage policies,
industry experience, physician provider group or specialty society
connectivity, and integration of patient insights.
“As Alpha Tau intensifies its ongoing focus on treating internal
organs with tremendous unmet need, and advances further towards
commercialization of the Alpha DaRT, this exciting announcement
comes at exactly the right time,” said Alpha Tau Chief Executive
Officer Uzi Sofer. “With an estimated 14,000 new GBM diagnoses per
year in the U.S., and exceedingly low five-year survival rates, the
need to expedite access to new innovative therapies is clear. We
are delighted to have been selected by the FDA and are hopeful that
the guidance from this distinguished panel of advisors will be
immensely valuable in crafting our GBM strategy for maximal impact
in the commercial market for patients with such a devastating
disease.”
About Alpha DaRT®
Alpha DaRT (Diffusing Alpha-emitters Radiation Therapy) is
designed to enable highly potent and conformal alpha-irradiation of
solid tumors by intratumoral delivery of radium-224 impregnated
sources. When the radium decays, its short-lived daughters are
released from the sources and disperse while emitting high-energy
alpha particles with the goal of destroying the tumor. Since the
alpha-emitting atoms diffuse only a short distance, Alpha DaRT aims
to mainly affect the tumor, and to spare the healthy tissue around
it.
About Alpha Tau Medical Ltd.
Founded in 2016, Alpha Tau is an Israeli oncology therapeutics
company that focuses on research, development, and potential
commercialization of the Alpha DaRT for the treatment of solid
tumors. The technology was initially developed by Prof. Itzhak
Kelson and Prof. Yona Keisari from Tel Aviv University.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within
the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. When used herein, words including "anticipate," "being,"
"will," "plan," "may," "continue," and similar expressions are
intended to identify forward-looking statements. In addition, any
statements or information that refer to expectations, beliefs,
plans, projections, objectives, performance or other
characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any
underlying assumptions, are forward-looking. All forward-looking
statements are based upon Alpha Tau's current expectations and
various assumptions. Alpha Tau believes there is a reasonable basis
for its expectations and beliefs, but they are inherently
uncertain. Alpha Tau may not realize its expectations, and its
beliefs may not prove correct. Actual results could differ
materially from those described or implied by such forward-looking
statements as a result of various important factors, including,
without limitation: (i) Alpha Tau's ability to receive regulatory
approval for its Alpha DaRT technology or any future products or
product candidates; (ii) Alpha Tau's limited operating history;
(iii) Alpha Tau's incurrence of significant losses to date; (iv)
Alpha Tau's need for additional funding and ability to raise
capital when needed; (v) Alpha Tau's limited experience in medical
device discovery and development; (vi) Alpha Tau's dependence on
the success and commercialization of the Alpha DaRT technology;
(vii) the failure of preliminary data from Alpha Tau's clinical
studies to predict final study results; (viii) failure of Alpha
Tau's early clinical studies or preclinical studies to predict
future clinical studies; (ix) Alpha Tau's ability to enroll
patients in its clinical trials; (x) undesirable side effects
caused by Alpha Tau's Alpha DaRT technology or any future products
or product candidates; (xi) Alpha Tau's exposure to patent
infringement lawsuits; (xii) Alpha Tau's ability to comply with the
extensive regulations applicable to it; (xiii) the ability to meet
Nasdaq's listing standards; (xiv) costs related to being a public
company; (xv) changes in applicable laws or regulations; and the
other important factors discussed under the caption "Risk Factors"
in Alpha Tau's annual report filed on form 20-F with the SEC on
March 7, 2024, and other filings that Alpha Tau may make with the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission. These and other
important factors could cause actual results to differ materially
from those indicated by the forward-looking statements made in this
press release. Any such forward-looking statements represent
management's estimates as of the date of this press release. While
Alpha Tau may elect to update such forward-looking statements at
some point in the future, except as required by law, it disclaims
any obligation to do so, even if subsequent events cause its views
to change. These forward-looking statements should not be relied
upon as representing Alpha Tau's views as of any date subsequent to
the date of this press release.
Investor Relations Contact:
IR@alphatau.com
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