Addex Therapeutics (SIX: ADXN and Nasdaq: ADXN), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company pioneering allosteric modulation-based drug discovery and development, today announced that the first patients have been enrolled into a Phase 2 clinical study evaluating JNJ-40411813 (ADX71149) in patients with epilepsy. JNJ-40411813 (ADX71149) is a selective metabotropic glutamate type 2 (mGlu2) receptor positive allosteric modulator (PAM). The trial is being conducted in collaboration with Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., part of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.
“Addex is anticipating multiple clinical study catalysts during 2021. The first, starting with this epilepsy study, illustrates the continued commitment of our long-time collaboration partner Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to this program and to pioneering novel ways to help epilepsy patients. Data from the study are expected in Q3 2022,” said Tim Dyer, CEO of Addex. “The start of additional clinical trials, including our pivotal study for our lead program dipraglurant in Parkinson’s disease patients suffering from dyskinesia remains on track for this quarter.”
The multi-center study (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04836559) will assess the efficacy, safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of adjunctive JNJ-40411813 (ADX71149) administration in patients with focal onset seizures with suboptimal response to levetiracetam. The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of JNJ-40411813 (ADX71149) in combination with levetiracetam using a time-to-event endpoint.
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