PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ARWR) today announced that it
filed a regulatory submission to begin a Phase 1/2 study of ARO-HBV,
which is being developed as a potentially curative therapy for patients
with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. Pending approval,
Arrowhead intends to proceed with AROHBV1001, a Phase 1/2 single-dose
escalation study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and
pharmacokinetic effects of ARO-HBV in healthy adult volunteers, as well
as a multiple-dose escalation study to evaluate the safety,
tolerability, and pharmacodynamic effects in HBV patients.
Chris Anzalone, Ph.D., president and CEO of Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals,
said: "ARO-HBV is designed to silence all HBV gene products, including
transcripts from both cccDNA and integrated DNA. We believe ARO-HBV, as
a key component of combination therapies, may allow the body's natural
immune defenses to control the virus and lead to a functional cure. The
clinical data that we recently presented at HEP DART 2017 indicate that
our prior generation compound, ARC-520, achieved a Sustained Host
Response in half of the previously treatment-naïve patients chronically
treated in that study, which we think bodes very well for ARO-HBV. The
regulatory filing announced today is substantially ahead of schedule and
we are excited to move into the clinic with multiple new compounds that
leverage our Targeted RNAi Molecule, or TRiMTM, platform
during 2018."
The application for approval of the clinical trial was submitted to the
New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority (MEDSAFE) for
review by the Standing Committee on Therapeutic Trials (SCOTT), as well
as the local Ethics Committee.
About Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals develops medicines that treat intractable
diseases by silencing the genes that cause them. Using a broad portfolio
of RNA chemistries and efficient modes of delivery, Arrowhead therapies
trigger the RNA interference mechanism to induce rapid, deep, and
durable knockdown of target genes. RNA interference, or RNAi, is a
mechanism present in living cells that inhibits the expression of a
specific gene, thereby affecting the production of a specific protein.
Arrowhead's RNAi-based therapeutics leverage this natural pathway of
gene silencing.
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