Description
Givinostat is a non-selective histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor. It exhibits antiproliferative and apoptosis inducing activity in urothelial carcinoma cells with distinct HDAC1 and 2 expression profiles. Givinostat also inhibits proliferation and induces apoptosis in some difficult to treat subsets of acute lymphocyctic leukemia (ALL), like those carrying CRLF2 rearrangements. This is possibly due to inhibition of the JAK/STAT pathway.