DURECT Corporation to Present Additional Safety and Efficacy Signals from Phase 1b Clinical Trial of DUR-928 in NASH Patients at The Liver Meeting Digital Experience™ 2020
DURECT Corporation (Nasdaq: DRRX) announced its participation in the AASLD Liver Meeting Digital Experience 2020, presenting findings from its Phase 1b clinical trial of DUR-928 in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) patients. Topline results indicated a 43% reduction in liver fat in patients, showing overall improvement in liver enzymes and lipid profiles. The study demonstrated safety across all dosing regimens. Further safety and efficacy data will be available during the meeting, enhancing understanding of DUR-928 as a potential treatment for liver diseases.
- 43% of NASH patients experienced ≥ 10% liver fat reduction after 4 weeks.
- Overall improvements in liver enzymes, stiffness, and lipid profiles reported.
- DUR-928 showed good tolerance across all evaluated dosing regimens.
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CUERTINO, Calif., Oct. 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- DURECT Corporation (Nasdaq: DRRX) today announced it will present a poster at The AASLD Liver Meeting Digital Experience ™ (TLMdX) 2020, to be held virtually on November 13-16, 2020.
Topline results from the 4-week Phase 1b clinical study of orally administered DUR-928 in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) patients were released previously, showing an overall improvement from baseline in liver enzymes, liver stiffness, and serum lipid profiles. At day 28,
Poster Presentation Details: | |
Title: | Safety and Efficacy Signals of 4-Week Oral DUR-928 in NASH Subjects |
Session: | NAFLD and NASH: Therapeutics - Pharmacologic and Other |
Presenter: | Eric Lawitz, M.D., Vice President, Scientific and Research Development, Texas Liver Institute |
Date/Time: | The poster will be available for viewing by attendees of the Liver Meeting throughout the entire meeting and will transition to LiverLearning® after the meeting concludes |
About DUR-928
DURECT's lead drug candidate, DUR-928, is an endogenous sulfated oxysterol and an epigenetic regulator. It represents a new class of therapeutics with a unique mechanism of action. DUR-928 epigenetically modulates the expression of multiple clusters of master genes that are involved in many important cell signaling pathways, through which it stabilizes mitochondria, reduces lipotoxicity, regulates inflammatory or stress responses, and promotes cell survival.
About DURECT Corporation
DURECT is a biopharmaceutical company committed to transforming the treatment of acute organ injury and chronic liver diseases by advancing novel and potentially lifesaving therapies based on its endogenous epigenetic regulator program. DUR-928, the company's lead drug candidate is in clinical development for the potential treatment of alcoholic hepatitis (AH), COVID-19 patients with acute liver or kidney injury, and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). DURECT's proprietary drug delivery technologies are designed to enable new indications and enhanced attributes for small-molecule and biologic drugs. One late-stage product candidate in this category is POSIMIR® (bupivacaine extended-release solution), an investigational locally-acting, non-opioid analgesic intended to provide up to three days of continuous pain relief after surgery. For more information about DURECT, please visit www.durect.com and follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/DURECTCorp.
DURECT Forward-Looking Statement
The statements in this press release regarding clinical development plans for DUR-928, including the potential use of DUR-928 to treat COVID-19 patients with liver or kidney injury, the potential use of DUR-928 to treat acute organ injuries, such as AH, and chronic liver diseases, such as NASH, and the potential use of POSIMIR to provide pain relief after surgery are forward-looking statements involving risks and uncertainties that can cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the risks that the clinical trial of DUR-928 in COVID-19 patients is delayed or stopped because of changes to the standard of care, the availability of alternative therapies, required protocol changes or lack of available patients, the risk that future clinical trials of DUR-928 are not started when anticipated, take longer to conduct than anticipated, do not confirm the results from earlier clinical or pre-clinical trials, or do not demonstrate the safety or efficacy of DUR-928 in a statistically significant manner, the risk that the FDA will not approve POSIMIR or approve POSIMIR with a limited label, the risk that additional time and resources may be required for development, testing and regulatory approval of DUR-928 or the Company's other product candidates, potential adverse effects arising from the testing or use of our drug candidates, our potential failure to maintain our collaborative agreements with third parties and risks related to our ability to obtain capital to fund operations and expenses. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in DURECT's Form 10-Q filed on August 4, 2020 under the heading "Risk Factors."
NOTE: POSIMIR® and SABER® are trademarks of DURECT Corporation. Other referenced trademarks belong to their respective owners. DUR-928 and POSIMIR are investigational drug candidates under development and have not been approved for commercialization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or other health authorities for any indication.
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