Epizyme to Present Data From the Tazemetostat Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Program at American Society for Hematology Meeting on Lymphoma Biology

CAMBRIDGE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Epizyme, Inc. (NASDAQ: EPZM), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company creating novel epigenetic therapies for people with cancer, today announced that data from four abstracts from the Company’s clinical development program in support of tazemetostat for use in non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) will be presented during the American Society of Hematology Meeting on Lymphoma Biology, to be held in Colorado Springs, CO, from June 18 to June 21, 2016.

Tazemetostat is a first-in-class EZH2 inhibitor currently in phase 2 studies in advanced B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) and certain genetically defined solid tumors. Among the data to be presented is the first interim report from the Company’s ongoing phase 2 study in patients with NHL.

Planned Presentations:

Oral Presentation: EZH2 as a target for non-Hodgkin lymphoma and beyond: tazemetostat experience; from bench to bedside and back to the benchSpeaker: Vincent Ribrag, MD, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Paris, FranceSession Title: Exciting New Mechanisms-Targeted Therapies and Clinical TrialsDate: June 21, 2016Time: 10:20 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. Mountain Time

Poster: Tazemetostat treatment drives wild-type and mutant EZH2 DLBCL cell lines to a cell fate decision between apoptosis or differentiation (Poster #39)Author: Michael Thomenius, Ph.D., EpizymeDate: June 19, 2016Time: 3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Mountain Time

Poster: Initial report from a phase 2 multi-center study of tazemetostat (EPZ-6438), an inhibitor of enhancer of zeste-homolog 2 (EZH2), in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (Poster #98)Author: Franck Morschhauser, MD, PhD, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Lille, Lille, FranceDate: June 20, 2016Time: 3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Mountain Time

Poster: Chromatin flow cytometry based assessment of H3K27me3 pharmacodynamics in blood from diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and follicular lymphoma (FL) patients following exposure to the EZH2 inhibitor tazemetostat reveals disparate response profiles in specific PMBC subpopulations (Poster #38)Author: Christopher Plescia, EpizymeDate: June 20, 2016Time: 3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Mountain Time

About the Tazemetostat Clinical Trial ProgramTazemetostat, a first-in-class EZH2 inhibitor, is currently being studied in ongoing phase 2 programs in both non-Hodgkin lymphoma and certain genetically defined solid tumors, including INI1-negative and SMARCA4-negative tumors and synovial sarcoma.

The Company has announced plans to initiate additional clinical evaluations of tazemetostat in 2016, including both a combination study with R-CHOP and a combination study with an immune checkpoint inhibitor in patients with NHL, as well as a monotherapy study in patients with mesothelioma.

About Epizyme, Inc.Epizyme, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company creating novel epigenetic therapeutics for cancer patients. Epizyme has built a proprietary product platform that the Company uses to create small molecule inhibitors of a 96-member class of enzymes known as histone methyltransferases, or HMTs. HMTs are part of the system of gene regulation, referred to as epigenetics, that controls gene expression. Genetic alterations can result in changes to the activity of HMTs, making them oncogenic (cancer-causing). By focusing on the genetic drivers of cancers, Epizyme's targeted science seeks to match the right medicines with the right patients.

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