Category: antisense drugs
Pfizer has called time on its alliance with Ionis for cholesterol-lowering therapy vupanorsen, after a review of phase 2b data raised some questions about the antisense drug’s efficacy and safety. It’s a setback to Pfizer’s late-stage pipeline, given that at one point the company was projecting $3 billion in potential sales for vupanorsen, which targets […]
Ionis has reported phase 2b trial data for its Pfizer-partnered antisense drug vupanorsen for cholesterol lowering that showed it met its main efficacy targets, but raised a few safety concerns as well. The top-line results of the TRANSLATE-TIMI 70 study – in dyslipidaemia patients with elevated non-HDL cholesterol and triglycerides – showed that vupanorsen was […]
An antisense drug developed by GlaxoSmithKline has been shown to suppress the hepatitis B virus (HBV) in a phase 2 trial, raising hopes of a “functional cure” for the widespread disease. HBV affects an estimated 260 million people worldwide, according to GSK. While drugs to treat it are available – such as Gilead’s polymerase inhibitor […]