Ab­b­Vie gets a big boost in the ma­jor league rheuma­toid arthri­tis fi­nals with promis­ing PhI­II da­ta

Ab­b­Vie passed on a big part­ner­ship it had set up with Gala­pa­gos on the promis­ing rheuma­toid arthri­tis drug fil­go­tinib so it could fo­cus all of its ef­forts on an in-house pro­gram for upadac­i­tinib (ABT-494). And to­day the block­buster gam­ble was re­ward­ed with a round of stel­lar da­ta from their first Phase III study of the oral JAK in­hibitor.

Both the 15 mg and 30 mg dos­es swept the pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary end­points in the study, with 64% and 66% re­spec­tive­ly hit­ting ACR20, with a min­i­mum 20% im­prove­ment in the dis­ease score.  ACR50 came in at 38% and 43%. Low dis­ease ac­tiv­i­ty was marked by about half of the pa­tients while on­ly 17% of the place­bo arm could say the same.

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