Months af­ter ax­ing a Duchenne pro­gram and lay­ing off dozens, San­thera claims a win there with a dif­fer­ent pro­gram

Last fall, San­thera Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals un­cer­e­mo­ni­ous­ly dumped a Duchenne pro­gram af­ter it flunked a Phase III tri­al, forc­ing a wave of lay­offs that trimmed the biotech’s staff from 120 to 40. Now, the Swiss com­pa­ny be­lieves it’s found a path to a come­back with a dif­fer­ent can­di­date in Duchenne.

San­thera re­vealed topline re­sults from a Phase IIb study for its va­morolone pro­gram, say­ing two dif­fer­ent dos­es each hit the pri­ma­ry end­point com­pared with place­bo. Tues­day’s da­ta give the biotech con­fi­dence to po­ten­tial­ly seek ap­proval for both dosage lev­els with the aim of sub­mit­ting an NDA in the first quar­ter of next year.

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