AGTC Reports Positive Six-Month Data from its Ongoing Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial in X-Linked Retinitis Pigmentosa
- Data suggest durable and meaningful improvements in central visual sensitivity
- Secondary data showed encouraging improvements in Best Corrected Visual Acuity
- All patients dosed continue to demonstrate a favorable safety profile
- Company plans to initiate pivotal trial by the end of 2020
- Company to host conference call and webcast with slides today at
“These promising results further demonstrate that our XLRP candidate has tremendous potential to provide meaningful benefit to XLRP patients who today have no treatment options,” said
Data from 17 of the 25 patients have been previously reported in
At the six-month time-point for these same nine centrally dosed patients:
- Measurable improvements were observed in visual sensitivity for four of the evaluable eight patients. These are the same four patients discussed in September and indicate encouraging signs of a durable biologic effect.
º Patients are defined as responders with improvement in visual sensitivity within the treatment area that is beyond the testing variability on at least two different test dates. - All nine patients treated centrally also had stable or improving visual acuity, 78% saw a 5 letter or more improvement, a result not reported in other XLRP trials.
- Patients who improved in either visual sensitivity or BCVA also anecdotally report noticeable improvement in visual function including greater clarity and reduced night blindness.
Preliminary data for additional patients enrolled at a new higher dose group are consistent with previous data.
Safety data from all 25 patients dosed to date continue to demonstrate a favorable profile for the XLRP candidate, with no dose-limiting inflammatory responses observed and no secondary inflammatory responses requiring re-administration of any steroid in any patients.
The company is scheduling additional patients for enrollment during the first quarter of the 2020. These patients will enable AGTC to generate the most robust set of data possible as the company moves forward with planning for a pivotal trial and eventual BLA application.
“The sustained improvement in visual sensitivity in centrally dosed patients are compelling and, if confirmed in a pivotal trial, would be highly meaningful to patients,” said Dr.
Conference Call and Webcast Today at
AGTC will host a conference call and webcast with accompanying slides to discuss the interim six-month data from the dose expansion cohort of its Phase 1/2 XLRP clinical trial today
The archived webcast will be available in the Events and Presentations section of the Company's website.
AGTC plans to review the data from the XLRP and achromatopsia Phase 1/2 clinical programs at an R&D Day on
About AGTC
AGTC is a clinical-stage biotechnology company that uses a proprietary gene therapy platform to develop transformational genetic therapies for patients suffering from rare and debilitating diseases. Its initial focus is in the field of ophthalmology, in which it has active clinical trials in X-linked retinitis pigmentosa (XLRP) and achromatopsia (ACHM CNGB3 & ACHM CNGA3). In addition to its clinical trials, AGTC has preclinical programs in optogenetics, adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), which is a disease of the central nervous system (CNS) and other CNS, ophthalmology and indications. The optogenetics program is being developed in collaboration with Bionic Sight. The otology program is being developed in collaboration with
About X-linked Retinitis Pigmentosa (XLRP)
XLRP is an inherited condition that causes progressive vision loss in boys and young men. Characteristics of the disease include night blindness in early childhood and progressive constriction of the visual field. In general, XLRP patients experience a gradual decline in visual acuity over the disease course, which results in legal blindness around the 4th decade of life. AGTC was granted U.S. Food and Drug (
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