Prothena’s lead drug NEOD001 just im­plod­ed in 2 late-stage stud­ies — and there’s noth­ing left to sal­vage

Prothena’s lead drug has de­ci­sive­ly failed a cru­cial Phase IIb study for rare, sec­ond-line cas­es of AL amy­loi­do­sis. And af­ter con­clud­ing that their Phase III for front­line use is al­so head­ed to fail­ure, the biotech’s ex­ec­u­tive team is scrap­ping the whole pro­gram.

In a pre­view of the re­sults be­ing re­leased this morn­ing for one of the most close­ly watched cat­a­lysts of Q2, Prothena $PR­TA CEO Gene Kin­ney said the com­pa­ny faced a very dif­fi­cult de­ci­sion, and had on­ly one re­al op­tion.

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