NRx Prescribed drugs Pronounces Information-Lock of Part 2b/3 Trial of NRX-101 in Suicidal Therapy Resistant Bipolar Despair

RADNOR, Pa., April 8, 2024. NRx Prescribed drugs, Inc. (“NRx Prescribed drugs”, the “Firm”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical firm, at this time introduced that the Firm has achieved data-lock in its Part 2b/3 Suicidal Therapy Resistant Bipolar Despair Research with NRX-101. With data-lock, as forecast in final week’s earnings name, the whole information set handed on for statistical evaluation; top-line information launch anticipated in April 2024.

With optimistic information from this examine and FDA remark, NRx turns into eligible to obtain the stability of its first milestone (a further $4 million) from companions Alvogen, Inc. and Lotus Prescribed drugs, Inc. (1745.TW). These companions would then be liable for all future growth prices on this indication. NRx retains rights for all different indications, together with power ache and PTSD. NRx is then poised to obtain $320 million in additional milestones together with mid-teen royalties on Internet Gross sales.

NRX-101 has been awarded Breakthrough Remedy Designation, Quick Observe Designation, a Biomarker Letter of Help, and a Particular Protocol Settlement by the FDA for therapy of Suicidal Therapy Resistant Bipolar Despair. It’s the solely oral treatment to have demonstrated each diminished signs of melancholy and diminished suicidal ideation in sufferers with bipolar melancholy, a deadly illness that claims the lives of 1 in 5 who dwell with it.

The earlier STABIL-B trial, (Ref. STABIL-B) resulted within the award of Breakthrough Remedy Designation for using NRX-101 following ketamine in hospitalized sufferers with Extreme Bipolar Despair and Acute Suicidal Ideation and NRx was cleared by FDA to conduct a section III trial on this regard underneath the Particular Protocol Settlement. FDA then advised that the Firm discover whether or not NRX-101 could be relevant to the a lot bigger inhabitants of sufferers with subacute suicidality who’re cared for within the outpatient setting on a power foundation. The aim of this trial was to find out whether or not a sign might be detected that will help a much wider indication for NRX-101. Profitable information on this regard would develop the potential marketplace for NRX-101 from a number of hundred thousand sufferers per yr to a number of million sufferers per yr.

“Sufferers with lively suicidal ideation have been excluded from the scientific trials of all beforehand recognized oral antidepressants. This trial of NRX-101 is the primary underneath an FDA Investigational New Drug software to aim to develop an oral remedy that provides sufferers with suicidal bipolar melancholy an alternative choice to electroconvulsive remedy, which is presently the one FDA-approved remedy for suicidal melancholy,” stated Dr. Jonathan Javitt, Founder, Chairman and Chief Scientist of NRx Prescribed drugs. “The Firm has additionally introduced plans to submit a New Drug Software to FDA this quarter for using ketamine as a short-term remedy for suicidal bipolar melancholy. We imagine that is the primary trial to display that suicidal sufferers can safely be enrolled and handled inside the context of a scientific trial, and this was solely attainable due to the shut monitoring of our examine investigators and website personnel. We’re deeply appreciative of the super work finished by our scientific growth workforce, the examine websites and, most significantly, the sufferers who participated in our trial.”

The Part 2b/3 trial (www.clinicaltrials.gov NCT 03395392) is a randomized, potential, multicenter, double-blind examine evaluating NRX-101 to lurasidone over six weeks. The Principal Investigator is Prof. Andrew Nierenberg of Harvard Massachusetts Common Hospital. The first efficacy endpoint is discount in melancholy as measured on the Montgomery-Asberg Despair Score Scale (MADRS) and the secondary endpoint is discount of suicidal ideation as measured by the Medical World Impression Suicidality Scale (CGI-SS). As beforehand disclosed, therapy compliance and concordance of native raters to central raters scores was in extra of 94%, effectively above the trade customary that’s usually seen in CNS trials.

About NRx Prescribed drugs

NRx Prescribed drugs is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical firm creating therapeutics based mostly on its NMDA platform for the therapy of central nervous system problems, particularly suicidal bipolar melancholy, power ache and PTSD. The Firm is creating NRX-101, an FDA-designated investigational Breakthrough Remedy for suicidal treatment-resistant bipolar melancholy and power ache. NRx has partnered with Alvogen and Lotus across the growth and advertising of NRX-101 for the therapy of suicidal bipolar melancholy. NRX-101 moreover has potential to behave as a non-opioid therapy for power ache, in addition to a therapy for sophisticated UTI.

NRx has not too long ago introduced plans to submit a New Drug Software for HTX-100 (IV ketamine), by way of Hope Therapeutics, within the therapy of suicidal melancholy, based mostly on outcomes of well-controlled scientific trials performed underneath the auspices of the US Nationwide Institutes of Well being and newly obtained information from French well being authorities, licensed underneath a knowledge sharing settlement. NRx was awarded Quick Observe Designation for growth of ketamine (NRX-100) by the US FDA as a part of a protocol to deal with sufferers with acute suicidality.

About HOPE Therapeutics, Inc.

HOPE Therapeutics, Inc. is a Specialty Pharmaceutical Firm, wholly-owned by NRX Prescribed drugs centered on growth and advertising of an FDA-approved type of intravenous ketamine for the therapy of acute suicidality and melancholy along with a digital therapeutic-enabled platform designed to reinforce and protect the scientific good thing about NMDA-targeted drug remedy.

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Posted: April 2024