Tag Archive for: discontinued clinical trials

California-based Gossamer Bio announced Monday that it is discontinuing the development of its lymphoma candidate GB5121 following two patient deaths in the Phase Ib/II STAR-CNS study.

G1 Therapeutics Inc. said on Monday it would terminate a late-stage study of its lead drug as it was unlikely to be effective in extending survival in patients with a type of colorectal cancer, sending its shares plunging more than 50%.

Sanofi is discontinuing its Phase III study of tolebrutinib, an investigational BTK inhibitor for myasthenia gravis (MG), the company announced Friday in its full-year 2022 financial report.

Shares of MacroGenics, Inc. are falling in pre-market trading after the company announced late Friday that it has shuttered a Phase II study of its investigational drug enoblituzumab as part of a combination therapy for head and neck cancer following seven reported deaths.

Therapeutics isn’t into exercises in futility. The Bay area-based biopharma company is discontinuing enrollment in two arms of its three-arm Phase II study of praluzatamab ravtansine in patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) after those studies failed to meet the protocol-defined futility boundary. 

Shares of Angion Biomedica Corp. are falling fast after the company announced it had discontinued a mid-stage study of an oral tyrone kinase inhibitor in patients with primary proteinuric kidney diseases due to safety reasons. And Novo Nordisk also hit a wall, reporting that its diabetes drug Ozempic (semaglutide) failed to inprove liver fibrosis in NASH-related cirrhosis.

Biogen indicated it has terminated an observational study of its approved Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm (aducanumab-avwa) following its post on ClinicalTrials.gov.

North Carolina-based 9 Meters Biopharma, a clinical-stage company that creates treatments for digestive diseases, is discontinuing its Phase III trial studying larazotide for the treatment of celiac disease due to disappointing interim results.