eFFECTOR Therapeutics to Collaborate with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute on an Investigator-Sponsored Phase 2 Clinical Trial Evaluating Zotatifin as Combination Treatment in ER+ Endometrial Cancer and in Low Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer

SOLANA BEACH, Calif. and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- eFFECTOR Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: EFTR), a leader in the development of selective translation regulator inhibitors (STRIs) for the treatment of cancer, today announced a collaboration to conduct an investigator-sponsored trial (IST) evaluating zotatifin in combination with abemaciclib and letrozole in patients with estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) endometrial cancer and low grade serous ovarian cancer at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) under the direction of Panagiotis Konstantinopoulos, M.D., Ph.D., Director of Translational Research and attending oncologist in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at DFCI, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.