Everest Medicines' Licensing Partner Pfizer Announces FDA and EMA Acceptance of Etrasimod Regulatory Submissions for Ulcerative Colitis - Yahoo Finance

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, /PRNewswire/ -- Everest Medicines (HKEX 1952.HK) announced contiguous that its licensing partner, Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) has received acceptance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for reappraisal a New Drug Application (NDA) for etrasimod for individuals surviving with moderately-to-severely progressive ulcerative colitis (UC). The FDA's determination is expected successful the 2nd fractional of 2023. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has besides accepted the Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) for etrasimod successful the aforesaid diligent colonisation with the determination anticipated successful the archetypal fractional of 2024. The anticipated U.S. FDA support volition beryllium the archetypal support of etrasimod globally.

"We congratulate our spouse for making important regulatory advancements towards bringing etrasimod arsenic a perchance best-in-class therapy to ulcerative colitis patients," said Rogers Yongqing Luo, Chief Executive Officer of Everest Medicines. "We purpose to implicit diligent enrollment for our signifier 3 survey successful Asia successful the archetypal fractional of 2023 and, if approved, anticipation to bring this caller attraction to Asian colonisation arsenic soon arsenic possible."

Etrasimod was developed by Arena Pharmaceuticals, which was acquired by Pfizer earlier this year. Everest Medicines obtained exclusive rights from Arena to develop, manufacture and commercialize etrasimod successful Greater China and South Korea successful 2017. The incidence of UC is expanding continuously successful China successful the caller decades. The fig of UC patients successful China is expected to much than treble from 2019 to scope implicit 900,000 by 2030 highlighting important unmet request for caller attraction for the disease. According to the Frost & Sullivan report, the marketplace size of UC was RMB3.4 billion successful 2019 successful China and is estimated to grow to RMB8.1 billion by 2024, representing compound yearly maturation complaint of 18.9%.

Pfizer's NDA submissions were based connected antecedently announced results from the ELEVATE UC Phase 3 registrational programme (ELEVATE UC 52 and ELEVATE UC 12) that evaluated the information and efficacy of etrasimod 2 mg erstwhile regular connected objective remission successful UC patients who had antecedently failed oregon were intolerant to astatine slightest 1 conventional, biologic, oregon Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor therapy. Both randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies achieved each superior and cardinal secondary endpoints, with a information illustration accordant with erstwhile studies. In the ELEVATE UC 52 study, objective remission was 27.0% for patients receiving etrasimod compared to 7.4% for patients receiving placebo astatine week 12 (19.8% differential, P≤.001) and was 32.1% compared to 6.7% astatine week 52 (25.4% differential, P≤.001). In ELEVATE UC 12, objective remission was achieved among 24.8% of patients receiving etrasimod compared to 15.2% of patients receiving placebo (9.7% differential, P=.0264).

About Etrasimod

Etrasimod is an oral, once-a-day, selective sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) receptor modulator designed for optimized pharmacology and engagement of S1P receptors 1, 4, and 5. In summation to UC, it is being investigated for a scope of different immuno-inflammatory diseases.

About ELEVATE UC 52 and ELEVATE UC 12

ELEVATE UC 52 and ELEVATE UC 12 are pivotal trials that are portion of the ELEVATE UC Phase 3 registrational program.

ELEVATE UC 52 is simply a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled proceedings that utilized a treat-through plan comprising of a 12-week induction play followed by a 40-week attraction period. Beginning astatine week 12, each patients could proceed their randomized treatment; patients whose illness had not improved oregon had worsened compared to baseline could discontinue and, if eligible, enroll successful an open-label hold study. The superior nonsubjective of this proceedings was to measure the information and efficacy of etrasimod 2 mg erstwhile regular connected objective remission aft some 12 and 52 weeks. The superior endpoint is based connected the 3-domain, modified Mayo people (MMS). In ELEVATE UC 52, objective remission was 27.0% for patients receiving etrasimod compared to 7.4% for patients receiving placebo astatine week 12 (19.8% differential, P≤.001) and was 32.1% compared to 6.7% astatine week 52 (25.4% differential, P≤.001). Statistically important improvements were attained successful each cardinal secondary endpoints, including endoscopic improvement, symptomatic remission, and mucosal healing astatine weeks 12 and 52, and corticosteroid-free remission and sustained objective remission astatine week 52.

ELEVATE UC 12 is simply a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled proceedings to measure the efficacy and information of etrasimod 2 mg once-daily successful subjects with moderately-to-severely progressive UC. The superior nonsubjective of this proceedings was to measure the information and efficacy of etrasimod connected objective remission astatine 12 weeks assessed by the FDA-required, 3-domain, MMS. In ELEVATE UC 12, objective remission was achieved among 24.8% of patients receiving etrasimod compared to 15.2% of patients receiving placebo (9.7% differential, P=.0264). All cardinal secondary endpoints were met astatine week 12, including endoscopic improvement, symptomatic remission, and mucosal healing.

In ELEVATE UC 12, a akin proportionality of patients experienced treatment-emergent adverse events (AEs) betwixt etrasimod 2 mg and placebo attraction groups, portion successful ELEVATE UC 52, it was higher successful the etrasimod 2 mg radical compared to placebo. The proportionality of patients experiencing superior AEs was akin betwixt attraction groups successful some trials. The astir communal treatment-emergent AEs successful 3% oregon much of etrasimod-treated patients and greater than placebo up to week 52 successful either proceedings were headache, worsening of UC, COVID-19 infection, dizziness, pyrexia, arthralgia, abdominal symptom and nausea. There were nary reports of bradycardia oregon atrioventricular artifact arsenic superior AEs. Data enactment initiation of etrasimod attraction does not necessitate analyzable up-titration regimen.

Nearly two-thirds of patients successful ELEVATE UC 52 and ELEVATE UC 12, respectively, were naïve to biologic oregon JAK inhibitor therapy.

About Everest Medicines

Everest Medicines is simply a biopharmaceutical institution focused connected processing and commercializing transformative pharmaceutical products that code captious unmet aesculapian needs for patients successful Asian markets. The absorption squad of Everest Medicines has heavy expertise and an extended way grounds from some starring planetary pharmaceutical companies and section Chinese pharmaceutical companies successful high-quality objective development, regulatory affairs, CMC, concern improvement and operations. Everest Medicines has built a portfolio of perchance planetary first-in-class oregon best-in-class molecules, galore of which are successful late-stage objective development. The Company's therapeutic areas of involvement see cardio-renal diseases, autoimmune disorders, and infectious diseases. For much information, delight sojourn its website astatine www.everestmedicines.com.

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