OctoPlus' licensee Biolex presents final Phase IIb results at EASL highlighting tolerability advantages of Locteron in treatment of HCV
Biolex announced that final 72-week results from its SELECT-2 Phase 2b trial of Locteron® for the treatment of hepatitis C are being presented today at the 46th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) in Berlin, Germany. Data presented today show that Locteron achieved the SELECT-2 study objectives by demonstrating viral kinetics and response rates that were comparable with or exceeded the PEG-Intron® control while also achieving a statistically significant reduction in flu-like adverse events, reduced rates of depression, lower use of concomitant medications and a reduced rate of discontinuation due to adverse events. Locteron is designed to offer key tolerability and dosing advantages over currently marketed interferons and serve as a core component of new combination therapies as the treatment of hepatitis C evolves to triple- and quad-drug regimens.
Locteron is administered once every other week and requires half as many injections as the currently marketed interferons, each of which are injected once per week. In SELECT-2, the sustained virologic response rate (SVR) for each of the three Locteron doses studied was comparable with or exceeded the response rate for the PEG-Intron control as outlined in the table below.
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