Out to shake up PC­SK9 mar­ket, Med­i­cines Co boasts of piv­otal PhI­II win for in­clisir­an

The Med­i­cines Com­pa­ny’s first piv­otal Phase III re­sults for in­clisir­an are in, and the biotech can’t wait to high­light the cho­les­terol-low­er­ing po­ten­tial of its long-act­ing drug.

Ahead of a da­ta pre­sen­ta­tion of ORI­ON-11 at next week’s Eu­ro­pean So­ci­ety of Car­di­ol­o­gy, The Med­i­cines Com­pa­ny is putting out word that in­clisir­an — an RNAi ther­a­peu­tic li­censed from Al­ny­lam that works by pre­vent­ing PC­SK9 from be­ing syn­the­sized in the liv­er — met all pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary end­points. The ef­fi­ca­cy was “con­sis­tent with find­ings from Phase 1 and 2 stud­ies” and the safe­ty pro­file was “at least as fa­vor­able” as in pre­vi­ous Phase II stud­ies.

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