CUERTINO, Calif., Oct. 5, 2020
/PRNewswire/ -- DURECT Corporation (Nasdaq: DRRX) today
announced it will present a poster at The AASLD Liver Meeting
Digital Experience ™ (TLMdX) 2020, to be held virtually on
November 13-16, 2020.
Topline results from the 4-week Phase 1b clinical study of orally administered DUR-928
in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) patients were released
previously, showing an overall improvement from baseline in liver
enzymes, liver stiffness, and serum lipid profiles. At day 28, 43%
of patients showed ≥ 10% liver fat reduction from baseline as
measured by magnetic resonance imaging - proton density fat
fraction (MRI-PDFF). Daily oral dosing of DUR-928 was
well tolerated at all three doses evaluated, 50mg QD, 150mg QD, and
300mg BID (600mg/day). Additional safety and efficacy data
will be presented in the poster.
Poster
Presentation Details:
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Title:
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Safety and Efficacy
Signals of 4-Week Oral DUR-928 in NASH Subjects
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Session:
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NAFLD and NASH:
Therapeutics - Pharmacologic and Other
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Presenter:
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Eric Lawitz, M.D.,
Vice President, Scientific and Research Development, Texas Liver
Institute
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Date/Time:
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The poster will be
available for viewing by attendees of the Liver Meeting throughout
the entire meeting and will transition to LiverLearning®
after the meeting concludes
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About DUR-928
DURECT's lead drug candidate, DUR-928,
is an endogenous sulfated oxysterol and an epigenetic regulator. It
represents a new class of therapeutics with a unique mechanism of
action. DUR-928 epigenetically modulates the expression of multiple
clusters of master genes that are involved in many important cell
signaling pathways, through which it stabilizes mitochondria,
reduces lipotoxicity, regulates inflammatory or stress responses,
and promotes cell survival.
About DURECT Corporation
DURECT is a biopharmaceutical
company committed to transforming the treatment of acute organ
injury and chronic liver diseases by advancing novel and
potentially lifesaving therapies based on its endogenous epigenetic
regulator program. DUR-928, the company's lead drug candidate is in
clinical development for the potential treatment of alcoholic
hepatitis (AH), COVID-19 patients with acute liver or kidney
injury, and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). DURECT's
proprietary drug delivery technologies are designed to enable new
indications and enhanced attributes for small-molecule and biologic
drugs. One late-stage product candidate in this category is
POSIMIR® (bupivacaine extended-release solution), an
investigational locally-acting, non-opioid analgesic intended to
provide up to three days of continuous pain relief after surgery.
For more information about DURECT, please visit www.durect.com and
follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/DURECTCorp.
DURECT Forward-Looking Statement
The statements in
this press release regarding clinical development plans for
DUR-928, including the potential use of DUR-928 to treat COVID-19
patients with liver or kidney injury, the potential use of DUR-928
to treat acute organ injuries, such as AH, and chronic liver
diseases, such as NASH, and the potential use of POSIMIR to provide
pain relief after surgery are forward-looking statements involving
risks and uncertainties that can cause actual results to differ
materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Potential
risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the risks
that the clinical trial of DUR-928 in COVID-19 patients is delayed
or stopped because of changes to the standard of care, the
availability of alternative therapies, required protocol changes or
lack of available patients, the risk that future clinical trials of
DUR-928 are not started when anticipated, take longer to conduct
than anticipated, do not confirm the results from earlier clinical
or pre-clinical trials, or do not demonstrate the safety or
efficacy of DUR-928 in a statistically significant manner, the risk
that the FDA will not approve POSIMIR or approve POSIMIR with a
limited label, the risk that additional time and resources may be
required for development, testing and regulatory approval of
DUR-928 or the Company's other product candidates, potential
adverse effects arising from the testing or use of our drug
candidates, our potential failure to maintain our collaborative
agreements with third parties and risks related to our ability to
obtain capital to fund operations and expenses. Further information
regarding these and other risks is included in DURECT's Form 10-Q
filed on August 4, 2020 under the
heading "Risk Factors."
NOTE: POSIMIR® and SABER® are trademarks
of DURECT Corporation. Other referenced trademarks belong to
their respective owners. DUR-928 and POSIMIR are
investigational drug candidates under development and have not been
approved for commercialization by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration or other health authorities for any indication.
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