ANN ARBOR, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Millendo Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: MLND), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel treatments for orphan endocrine diseases, announced today that its late-stage clinical candidates, livoletide and nevanimibe, will be featured in three concurrent poster presentations at the European Society of Endocrinology’s 21st European Congress of Endocrinology (ECE), taking place May 18-21, 2019 in Lyon, France.
Livoletide, a potential first-in-class treatment for Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), will be featured in two poster presentations. The company will provide an overview of the pivotal Phase 2b/3 ZEPHYR clinical trial, initiated in March 2019, to evaluate the safety and efficacy of livoletide for hyperphagia and food-related behaviors in PWS patients in one poster. Data from the livoletide nonclinical safety program to support its clinical development will be presented in another poster. The company will also give an overview of its ongoing nevanimibe Phase 2b study in patients with classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) in a third poster presentation. Top-line results from the Phase 2b portion of ZEPHYR and the Phase 2b study for nevanimibe in CAH are expected in the first half of 2020.
Details of the poster presentations are as follows, and will take place at the ECE on Monday, May 20 from 1:00 – 3:00 PM:
Title: Trial-in-Progress: ZEPHYR, a Pivotal Phase 2b/3
Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study of Livoletide, a Novel Unacylated
Ghrelin Analogue, for the Treatment of Hyperphagia and Food-Related
Behaviors in Patients with Prader-Willi Syndrome
Location: Exhibition
Hall, P619
Title: Nonclinical Development of Livoletide (AZP-531), a Peptide
Analogue of Unacylated Ghrelin for the Treatment of Hyperphagia in
Prader-Willi Syndrome
Location: Exhibition Hall, P621
Title: Trial-in-Progress: A Multicenter, Dose-Titration,
Open-Label Phase 2b Study of Nevanimibe Hydrochloride, a Novel ACAT1
Inhibitor, for the Treatment of Classic Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
Location:
Exhibition Hall, P730
About Livoletide
Millendo’s lead asset, livoletide, is an
unacylated ghrelin analogue in late-stage clinical development for the
treatment of Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), a rare genetic disease
characterized by hyperphagia, a chronic unrelenting hunger, that leads
to obesity, metabolic dysfunction, reduced quality of life and early
mortality. In March 2019, the company initiated a pivotal Phase 2b/3
clinical study of livoletide in patients with PWS. In a previous
randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2 clinical trial in
47 patients with PWS, administration of livoletide once daily was
associated with a clinically meaningful improvement in hyperphagia, as
well as a reduction in appetite. Millendo has received orphan drug
designation for livoletide from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the treatment of PWS.
For more information about Millendo’s pivotal study of livoletide
(ZEPHYR) please visit www.clinicaltrials.gov
(NCT03790865)
or the Patients
and Families portion of our website.
About Nevanimibe
Nevanimibe decreases adrenal
steroidogenesis through the inhibition of ACAT1 and is being studied for
the treatment of two orphan adrenal diseases: classic congenital adrenal
hyperplasia (CAH) and endogenous Cushing’s syndrome (CS). CAH is a rare,
monogenic adrenal disease that requires lifelong treatment with
exogenous cortisol, often at high doses, which can make it difficult for
physicians to appropriately treat CAH without causing adverse
consequences. Millendo has received orphan drug designation for
nevanimibe for the treatment of CAH and CS from the FDA, as well as from
the EMA for the treatment of CAH. In a Phase 2 proof-of-concept clinical
trial, Millendo observed nevanimibe to be associated with clear signs of
clinical activity in seven of 10 treated patients and was reported to be
well tolerated at all dose levels. Millendo initiated a Phase 2b trial
of nevanimibe in CAH in September 2018 (NCT03669549).
A Phase 2 trial of nevanimibe for the treatment of patients with CS is
ongoing (NCT03053271).
About Millendo Therapeutics, Inc.
Millendo Therapeutics is a
late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel
treatments for orphan endocrine diseases where current therapies do not
exist or are insufficient. As a leading orphan endocrine company,
Millendo creates distinct and transformative treatments where there is a
significant unmet medical need. The company is currently advancing
livoletide for the treatment of Prader-Willi syndrome and nevanimibe for
the treatment of classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia and endogenous
Cushing’s syndrome. For more information, please visit www.millendo.com.
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