Pharnext, a biopharmaceutical company, has announced new positive results from the ongoing open-label extension study of their drug PXT3003 in Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Type 1A (CMT1A), called the PLEO-CMT-FU trial. The trial has been conducted for a total of 6 years, and the data is consistent with a long-term treatment benefit of PXT3003 in patients with mild-to-moderate CMT1A. The results indicate that PXT3003 has a good safety profile and shows a long-term treatment effect on the Overall Neuropathy Limitation Scale (ONLS), which measures functional motor disability. A group of 117 patients with mild-to-moderate CMT1A are still receiving treatment with the high dose of PXT3003 in the trial.
HNF is Reshaping Drug Repurposing for CMT
HNF has partnered with Rarebase, a public benefit precision medicine company that has screened a large library of FDA approved small molecules to identify candidates for various types of CMT. Their tech-enabled drug discovery platform is called Function™. There are many published discoveries on the genetic cause of many types of CMT, including an understanding of the basic mechanism of disease and potential targets for FDA-approved drug repurposing. It is this understanding that allows HNF and Rarebase to target the genetic root cause of CMT.
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