Sec­ond PhI­II study for Idor­si­a's sleep drug re­turns pos­i­tive re­sults, but al­so rais­es new ques­tions

Fol­low­ing a suc­cess­ful Phase III study in April show­cas­ing the safe­ty and po­ten­tial of its new sleep drug, Idor­sia post­ed some mixed news in the sec­ond Phase III study, but that won’t stop a planned fil­ing aimed at reg­u­la­to­ry ap­proval.

The drug, a dual orex­in re­cep­tor an­tag­o­nist (DO­RA) called dari­dorex­ant, was found to sig­nif­i­cant­ly im­prove sleep main­te­nance and sub­jec­tive to­tal sleep time in 25 mg dos­es, repli­cat­ing re­sults from the first Phase III study. How­ev­er, im­prove­ments in sleep on­set and day­time func­tion­ing nar­row­ly missed sta­tis­ti­cal sig­nif­i­cance, de­spite nu­mer­i­cal con­sis­ten­cy with the April study.

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