Navidea Biopharmaceuticals Announces Opening of Nine New Sites in its Pivotal Phase 3 Trial in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Termination of Binding Memorandum of Understanding with Jubilant Radiopharma
Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (NAVB) has announced the opening of nine new sites for its pivotal NAV3-33 Phase 3 clinical trial focused on utilizing Tc99m tilmanocept imaging to predict the response to anti-TNFα therapy in patients with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA). This trial aims to expedite patient enrollment and improve treatment outcomes by offering a noninvasive method to assess treatment efficacy sooner. Additionally, the company has terminated its Memorandum of Understanding with Jubilant Radiopharma, enabling new partnership opportunities.
- Opening of nine additional sites for the NAV3-33 Phase 3 trial enhances patient recruitment.
- Potential for Tc99m tilmanocept imaging to provide early treatment response predictions in rheumatoid arthritis.
- The termination of the MOU with Jubilant Radiopharma allows for new partnership discussions.
- No significant negative aspects reported.
This Phase 3 trial will establish the ability of Tc99m tilmanocept imaging to serve as an early predictor of treatment response in rheumatoid arthritis (“RA”) patients switching to an anti-TNFα therapy. Trial details are posted on clinicaltrials.gov.
RA is a serious and potentially debilitating disease. The standard practice of treating RA is to monitor patients initiating new RA therapies over a course of three to six months and, in those patients for which the new therapies prove to be ineffective, to change their treatments to an alternative therapy with a different mechanism of action. This trial-and-error process of appropriate treatment selection may take several months to more than a year to arrive at an adequate treatment for any RA patient. Imaging with Tc99m tilmanocept, a synthetic molecule with high affinity to CD206 receptors expressed on activated macrophages, offers the potential to provide an early predictor of clinical response by providing an objective, quantifiable readout of changes in macrophage density in the joints of patients undergoing initiation or change of therapy. These macrophage density changes may be observable weeks before disease modification can be detected with standard clinical assessments and are predictive of treatment response.
Tilmanocept imaging could provide rheumatologists and those suffering with RA a noninvasive, quantifiable, early indicator of whether or not an anti-TNFα treatment is working, and this could bring enormous benefit to these patients by assisting physicians in putting them on the right course of treatment earlier than is currently possible.
The Company also announced the termination of the Memorandum of Understanding (”MOU”) with Jubilant Radiopharma, originally signed on
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