Durable, safe and ef­fec­tive long-term kid­ney drug da­ta from Tri­ci­da fu­el block­buster po­ten­tial

Kid­ney drug de­vel­op­er Tri­ci­da’s shares shot up on Thurs­day, af­ter long-term da­ta high­light­ed its lead drug’s durable ef­fi­ca­cy and safe­ty pro­file as a treat­ment for meta­bol­ic aci­do­sis, in which faulty kid­neys are not able to ex­pel the acid caus­ing a buildup in the body.

The drug — TRC101 — is de­signed to bind to hy­drochlo­ric acid in the GI tract, trig­ger­ing the ejec­tion of acid via ex­cre­tion — there­by di­min­ish­ing acid lev­els and stim­u­lat­ing blood bi­car­bon­ate. The com­pa­ny ex­pects to sub­mit an ap­pli­ca­tion to mar­ket the drug by the sec­ond half of this year for the con­di­tion com­mon­ly caused by chron­ic kid­ney dis­ease (and be­lieved to ac­cel­er­ate the pro­gres­sion of CKD), in­crease the risk of mus­cle wast­ing and cause the loss of bone den­si­ty. If ap­proved, it will be the first drug to win the FDA nod specif­i­cal­ly for meta­bol­ic aci­do­sis.

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