Ian Mortimer, Xenon Pharmaceuticals CEO

Canada's Xenon touts out-of-the-blue win for its dai­ly epilep­sy pill, send­ing in­vestors in­to a fren­zy

Look­ing to shake up the mar­ket for seizure and epilep­sy pa­tients, Xenon Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals re­port­ed new topline da­ta Mon­day that earned a ring­ing en­dorse­ment from in­vestors.

The British Co­lum­bia-based biotech re­vealed its XEN1101 pro­gram passed a Phase IIb test at all three dos­es, pro­duc­ing high­ly sta­tis­ti­cal­ly sig­nif­i­cant re­sults at the mid-and high-dose lev­els. There’s no con­crete plan yet to com­mer­cial­ize the drug, as Xenon still needs to meet with the FDA, but the biotech not­ed it ex­pand­ed the study’s open-la­bel ex­ten­sion to three years to ob­tain more fol­low-up da­ta.

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