BioCryst’s Oral Therapy For HAE Attacks On Track With Exploratory Phase II Success

 
• By Joseph Haas
  
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Biocryst’s oral kallikrein inhibitor BCX7353 – already in Phase III for prophylaxis of hereditary angioedema – shows efficacy in a range of endpoints in a Phase II exploratory trial.

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Initial data showing superiority for BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s oral kallikrein inhibitor BCX7383 over placebo on the majority of the 14 endpoints used in the ZENITH-1 study opens up the possibility that BioCryst’s candidate will become the first oral therapy for both HAE prevention and acute attacks, other than steroid therapies that have long been surpassed as standard of care.

BCX7383 already is being tested for prophylaxis of HAE in the pivotal APeX-2 study, which is testing two doses in...

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