Bio­gen cuts PhI­II Parkin­son’s pro­gram over ‘long time­line’ 

Bio­gen is call­ing it quits on a late-stage Parkin­son’s tri­al as part of an on­go­ing R&D re­or­ga­ni­za­tion.

The Cam­bridge, MA-based biotech an­nounced Mon­day morn­ing that it’s dis­con­tin­u­ing a Phase III pro­gram eval­u­at­ing BI­IB122 as a treat­ment for pa­tients with Parkin­son’s dis­ease re­lat­ed to LRRK2 mu­ta­tions with part­ner De­nali Ther­a­peu­tics. The study, dubbed LIGHT­HOUSE, kicked off in Sep­tem­ber; it was slat­ed for com­ple­tion in 2031. Bio­gen said the de­ci­sion was made in con­sid­er­a­tion of the study’s “com­plex­i­ty in­clud­ing the long time­line.”

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