Arrowhead Begins Triple Combination Cohort in Chronic HBV Patients and Earns $25 Million
Milestone Payment from Janssen
April 24, 2019
PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 24, 2019-- Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ARWR) today announced that it has begun
dosing in a new triple combination cohort (cohort 12) that includes JNJ-3989 (formerly ARO-HBV) and additional undisclosed agents selected by
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in its ongoing Phase 1/2 study (AROHBV1001) in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV). In connection with the
start of this new cohort, Arrowhead has earned a $25 million milestone payment from Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., part of the Janssen
Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.
Christopher Anzalone, Ph.D., president and chief executive officer at Arrowhead, said: “Both Arrowhead and Janssen share the aim to advance
transformational medicines that achieve higher rates of functional cure with a finite treatment duration for patients with chronic hepatitis B viral
infection. Beginning this new triple combination cohort in our ongoing AROHBV1001 study has the potential to generate valuable data rapidly.”
AROHBV1001 (NCT03365947) is a Phase 1/2 clinical study evaluating the safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetic effects of single-ascending doses
(SAD) of ARO-HBV in healthy adult volunteers, as well as the safety, tolerability, and pharmacodynamic effects of multiple-ascending doses (MAD) of
ARO-HBV in patients with chronic HBV.
Arrowhead entered into a license and collaboration agreement with Janssen in October 2018 to develop and commercialize ARO-HBV. Under the
initial terms of the HBV license agreement, Arrowhead was eligible to receive a $50 million milestone payment linked to a Phase 2 study. Arrowhead
and Janssen subsequently amended the HBV license agreement to accelerate the payment of $25 million of the $50 million Phase 2 milestone with
the initiation of cohort 12 of the AROHBV1001 trial. Arrowhead is eligible to receive the remaining $25 million upon the initiation of a Phase 2 study by
Janssen.
Hepatitis B作者: sir 时间: 2019-4-24 23:19
Arrowhead Begins Triple Combination Cohort in Chronic HBV Patients and Earns $25 Million Milestone Payment from Janssen
Apr 24, 2019 at 7:30 AM EDT
PASADENA, Calif. --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 24, 2019-- Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ARWR) today announced that it has begun dosing in a new triple combination cohort (cohort 12) that includes JNJ-3989 (formerly ARO-HBV) and additional undisclosed agents selected by Janssen Pharmaceuticals,
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PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 24, 2019-- Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ARWR) today announced that it has begun dosing in a new triple combination cohort (cohort 12) that includes JNJ-3989 (formerly ARO-HBV) and additional undisclosed agents selected by Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in its ongoing Phase 1/2 study (AROHBV1001) in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV). In connection with the start of this new cohort, Arrowhead has earned a $25 million milestone payment from Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., part of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.
Christopher Anzalone, Ph.D., president and chief executive officer at Arrowhead, said: “Both Arrowhead and Janssen share the aim to advance transformational medicines that achieve higher rates of functional cure with a finite treatment duration for patients with chronic hepatitis B viral infection. Beginning this new triple combination cohort in our ongoing AROHBV1001 study has the potential to generate valuable data rapidly.”
AROHBV1001 (NCT03365947) is a Phase 1/2 clinical study evaluating the safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetic effects of single-ascending doses (SAD) of ARO-HBV in healthy adult volunteers, as well as the safety, tolerability, and pharmacodynamic effects of multiple-ascending doses (MAD) of ARO-HBV in patients with chronic HBV.
Arrowhead entered into a license and collaboration agreement with Janssen in October 2018 to develop and commercialize ARO-HBV. Under the initial terms of the HBV license agreement, Arrowhead was eligible to receive a $50 million milestone payment linked to a Phase 2 study. Arrowhead and Janssen subsequently amended the HBV license agreement to accelerate the payment of $25 million of the $50 million Phase 2 milestone with the initiation of cohort 12 of the AROHBV1001 trial. Arrowhead is eligible to receive the remaining $25 million upon the initiation of a Phase 2 study by Janssen.
Hepatitis B infection is a life-threatening viral infection of the liver, which can cause cirrhosis — scarring of liver tissue — and liver cancer if the infection becomes chronic. The World Health Organization cites that hepatitis B is a global public health problem with 257 million people living with the disease, resulting in 887,000 deaths in 2015.1 While a preventive vaccine is available, cure rates for those infected remain low and most patients will endure lifelong therapy.
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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VIENNA — In this exclusive video from the International Liver Congress 2019, James Merson, PhD, global therapeutic area head for infectious diseases at Janssen, discusses the company’s pipeline for hepatitis B with a focus on improving functional cure rates.
“For us at Janssen, HBV and being able to increase functional cure rates of patients living with HBV is an important part of our strategy as to how we can manage the disease more effectively than the current treatments do today,” Merson told Healio Gastroenterology and Liver Disease.
“We have a number of different modalities that we’re looking at to increase functional cure rates,” he continued. “Standard of care today — nucleos(t)ide analogues — get around 3% functional cure rates. We’re looking to make a meaningful difference for those patients, so they no longer have to take lifelong therapies to manage their disease.”
Merson provided details on the company’s HBV pipeline that includes two capsid assembly modulators that have shown “impressive” antiviral activity in phase 2a studies, a small interfering RNA molecule that has demonstrated HBV surface antigen suppression in a phase 2a study that continued after 3 months of stopping treatment, and a toll-like receptor 7 agonist that has shown promise in early phase 1 trials.
“As we look forward, we are trying to find the optimal doses and dosing frequency for each of these modulators and how best to combine each one of those with various partners to see whether we can truly increase the functional cure rates in patients chronically infected with HBV rates.”
Reference:
Harrison SA. Abstract SAT-300. Presented at: International Liver Congress; April 10-14, 2019; Vienna, Austria.
Disclosure: Merson is the global therapeutics area head for infectious diseases at Janssen.
维也纳 - 在2019年国际肝病大会的独家视频中,Janssen传染病全球治疗领域负责人James Merson博士讨论了该公司的乙型肝炎管道,重点是提高功能性治愈率。
“对于我们在Janssen,HBV以及能够提高HBV患者的功能治愈率是我们策略的一个重要部分,因为我们比目前的治疗方法更有效地治疗疾病,”Merson告诉Healio Gastroenterology and Liver疾病。