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| Ozanimod from Celgene may be added to the MS drugs | |
| By: agate Date: July 16, 2016, 9:07 pm | |
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| This article in Multiple Sclerosis News Today (February 24) | |
| indicates that another MS drug, ozanimod, may be coming along | |
| soon. | |
| A couple of financial Websites suggest that this drug is quite | |
| similar to one about to be marketed by Biogen. | |
| http://multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com/2016/02/24/relapsing-ms-treatment-showing… | |
| http://multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com/2016/02/24/relapsing-ms-treatment-showing… | |
| #Post#: 1570-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Ozanimod from Celgene may be added to the MS drugs | |
| By: agate Date: February 22, 2017, 11:56 am | |
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| From MedPage Today, February 21, 2017: | |
| [quote]SAVE | |
| SAVED | |
| by Kristina Fiore | |
| Associate Editor, MedPage Today | |
| February 21, 2017 | |
| Celgene said its S1P receptor modulator for relapsing MS met the | |
| primary endpoint in the SUNBEAM study of reducing annualized | |
| relapse rate compared with weekly interferon over a year. | |
| Patients on ozanimod also did better on secondary endpoints of | |
| reduced gadolinium-enhancing lesions and number of new or | |
| enlarging T2 lesions at that time point. Confirmatory data are | |
| expected from the phase III RADIANCE trial at the end of the | |
| second quarter this year. The goal of second-generation S1P | |
| drugs is to reduce the cardiac monitoring requirement seen with | |
| the first-generation drug fingolimod (Gilenya).[/quote] | |
| #Post#: 1662-------------------------------------------------- | |
| (AAN) Placebo patients switched to ozanimod catch up in lowerin | |
| g relapse rate | |
| By: agate Date: May 2, 2017, 12:06 am | |
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| From MedPage Today, April 27, 2017: | |
| [quote]Ozanimod Keeps on Working in MS Extension Trial | |
| Placebo patients switched to the investigative agent catch up in | |
| lowering relapse rate | |
| by Florenz Turkel | |
| Contributing Writer, MedPage Today | |
| When patients diagnosed with multiple sclerosis are switched | |
| from placebo in clinical trials to the investigative agent | |
| ozanimod, the annualized relapse rate falls to levels similar to | |
| those achieved by patients who have been on the new drug | |
| throughout the trial, researchers reported. | |
| In the core RADIANCE (part 1) trial, patients assigned to | |
| placebo experienced a 0.57 rate of relapses in the first 24 | |
| weeks, but once they were switched to ozanimod that rate fell to | |
| 0.31 on the 0.5 mg dose of ozanimod and to a rate of 0.27 if | |
| they were treated with the 1 mg dose of ozanimod, reported | |
| Jeffrey Cohen, MD, director of experimental neurotherapeutics at | |
| the Mellon Center for MS Treatment and Research at the Cleveland | |
| Clinic in Ohio. | |
| That compared with a rate of 0.25 for patients who were | |
| originally assigned to ozanimod 0.5 mg at the start of the study | |
| and to a rate of 0.15 relapses a year among the patients who | |
| were started on ozanimod 1 mg at the beginning of the trial. The | |
| original trial and its extension are double-blinded. | |
| After 2 years on the drug, there were little differences in | |
| relapse rates among those who started on ozanimod 0.5 mg and the | |
| original placebo patients switched to the lower dose � a rate of | |
| 0.35 for the patients switched to ozanimod and a rate of 0.38 | |
| for those who had been on ozanimod for the 24-week treatment | |
| part of the trial, Cohen reported at the annual meeting of the | |
| American Academy of Neurology. | |
| The story was the same for patients treated with 1 mg of | |
| ozanimod � those who were switched from placebo had an | |
| annualized relapse rate of 0.12 compared with an annualized | |
| relapse rate of 0.15 for the patients who were on ozanimod from | |
| the get-go at the 2 year milestone. | |
| "Both ozanimod 0.5 mg and 1 mg demonstrated continued efficacy | |
| on MRI and clinical measurements of multiple sclerosis disease | |
| activity over 2.5 years," Cohen said in his oral platform | |
| presentation. | |
| The researchers included 82 patients in the extension trial who | |
| were originally on placebo. They were assigned to either the 0.5 | |
| mg or the 1 mg dose of ozanimod � 41 patients in each group. | |
| They joined 84 patients who had been on ozanimod 0.5 mg at | |
| baseline and 81 patients who had been on ozanimod 1 mg from the | |
| start of the RADIANCE study. | |
| Cohen said that the extension trial did not come with any | |
| surprises in the context of adverse events. "No new | |
| treatment-emergent adverse events associated with ozanimod over | |
| the 2 years or more treatment were observed," Cohen said. He | |
| said there were no new adverse effects seen by dose of the | |
| agent. | |
| He did note that 5 patients who were found to have increased | |
| liver enzymes 5 times the upper limits of normal were taken off | |
| the drug. Ozanimod is a sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) receptor | |
| agonist. Phase III trials, including RADIANCE (part 2) are | |
| underway, Cohen said at the annual meeting of the American | |
| Academy of Neurology. Ozanimod specifically targets two of the | |
| five S1P sites, making it more selective that fingolimod | |
| (Gilenya). | |
| The patients in the study were about 38 years old and 70% were | |
| women; more than 98% were white. They had been diagnosed with | |
| multiple sclerosis for about 3.8 years. The average number of | |
| relapses per year at baseline was 2. About 25% of the patients | |
| had previously been on prior medication for multiple sclerosis. | |
| After a 30-day screening protocol, patients were given a 7-day | |
| period to escalate the oral dose to either 0.5 mg or 1 mg or | |
| placebo, and then took their assigned pills for 24 weeks. After | |
| that period, the patients on placebo were reassigned to either | |
| dose of the drug. | |
| "The key as to where ozanimod will fit into clinical practice | |
| will depend on the safety profile," said Jennifer Graves, MD, | |
| assistant professor of neurology and ophthalmology at the | |
| University of California, San Francisco. | |
| "The efficacy looks similar to other drugs in the field. So if | |
| there are fewer adverse events that could determine how the drug | |
| will fit in the marketplace," Graves, co-moderator of the | |
| session, told MedPage Today. | |
| ______________________ | |
| The trial was supported by Receptos, a subsidiary of Celgene, | |
| Inc. | |
| Cohen disclosed relevant relationships with Merck, Novartis, and | |
| Receptos. | |
| Graves disclosed relevant relationships with Genentech, Biogen, | |
| and S3 Group.[/quote] | |
| #Post#: 1865-------------------------------------------------- | |
| (ECTRIMS 2017) Ozanimod shows promise in MS | |
| By: agate Date: October 30, 2017, 8:02 pm | |
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| From MedPage Today, October 30, 2017: | |
| "Next-gen S1P receptor modulator [ozanimod] shows promise in MS" | |
| https://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/ECTRIMS/68876?xid=nl_mpt_special_r… | |
| #Post#: 1911-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Ozanimod successful in clinical trials | |
| By: agate Date: December 7, 2017, 1:16 am | |
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| From Science Daily (November 9, 2017): | |
| :"MS: | |
| Ozanimod successful in clinical trials" | |
| https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171109224027.htm | |
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