No­van’s shares in melt­down fol­low­ing "dis­cor­dant" PhI­II stud­ies of a new ac­ne drug

Of­fi­cial­ly, No­van $NOVN put out some mixed da­ta from two Phase III stud­ies of their lead drug for ac­ne, with one suc­cess and one fail­ure. But even the pos­i­tive da­ta from one tri­al failed to stand out from the con­trol arm in a ma­jor way, putting this com­pa­ny un­der a cloud.

Its stock plunged 80% this morn­ing.

On the up side, in­ves­ti­ga­tors say that SB204 hit all three co-pri­ma­ry end­points for NI-AC302, with sig­nif­i­cant – though far from im­pres­sive – re­sults for re­duc­ing the num­ber of le­sions and ac­ne clear­ance. Here are the num­bers, for both stud­ies:

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