Learn­ing from past mis­takes, Cen­trex­ion clears a big PhI­Ib hur­dle for its pain drug

Jef­frey Kindler’s biotech start­up Cen­trex­ion is boast­ing about its lead drug’s suc­cess in a Phase IIb pain study for knee os­teoarthri­tis.

The ex-Pfiz­er CEO’s Boston-based biotech says that CN­TX-4975, in­ject­ed di­rect­ly in­to the joint, de­liv­ered pain re­lief to a fair­ly large group of pa­tients who had failed on first-line pain drugs, set­ting them up to go in­to a late-stage piv­otal pro­gram next year.

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