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AZ asthma drug falls short in Phase 3 study

pharmafile | May 10, 2017 | News story | Research and Development |  AstraZeneca, asthma, tralokinumab 

AstraZeneca and its global biologics research and development arm MedImmune have announced that asthma treatment tralokinumab has failed to achieve its primary endpoint in its first Phase 3 trial.

Tralokinumab, an anti-interleukin-13 (IL-13) human monoclonal antibody, failed to show a clinically-significant ability to reduce annual asthma exacerbation rates compared to placebo across a large sample of patients with severe asthma during the Stratos 1 trial.

Around 315 million people suffer from asthma globally, with 10% of that number suffering from a severe form of the disease – the form which tralokinumab was engineered to treat. While the drug failed to adequately deliver, AZ is now waiting on the results of a second Phase 3 trial in the hope that it proves its efficacy. The second trial data is expected to become available in the later half of the year.

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“Severe asthma is a heterogeneous disease with significant unmet needs and we will now await the Stratos 2 results in the second half of 2017 to explore the potential to treat a sub-group of uncontrolled asthma patients with tralokinumab,” commented Executive Vice-President, Global Medicines Development and Chief Medical Officer Sean Bohen.

Matt Fellows

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