We next evaluated the activity of ponatinib in ER-negative breast cancer cell lines, SUM 52PE and MFM-223, that overexpress FGFR2 due to genomic amplification (8). Ponatinib inhibited growth of SUM 52PE and MFM-223 cells with GI50 values of 14 and 69 nmol/L, respectively (Fig. 5B).