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Takeda powers toward pivotal trials after phase 2b narcolepsy win but pauses multi-indication dream
2024-02-09
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Takeda plans to move TAK-861 into phase 3 in the first half of its 2024 financial year.
Takeda’s narcolepsy work has finally yielded a phase 2b win, albeit with a blemish. After axing one asset over liver toxicity, the Japanese drugmaker’s continued faith in the mechanism has been rewarded with a primary endpoint hit—but the midphase program only supports progression in one form of the disease.
The phasenarcolepsym featured two trials, one in narcolepsy type 1 (NT1) and another in narcolepsy type 2 (NT2). Both studies tested TAK-861, an oral orexin receptor 2 agonist. The potential of the mechanism is clearer in NT1, a condition characterized by deficiency of the neuropeptide orexin, but Takeda saw an opportunity to move the needle in NT2, too. Orexin levels are normal in patients with NT2.
Takeda’s bet on NT2, a rarer, normally milder fornarcolepsylepsy, has failed to make thenarcolepsyfurther development of TAK-861 in the indication. Buorexin receptor 2 agonistorexin receptor 2s more encouraged by the results in NT1, leading it to outline plans to start phase 3 trials in that form of the condition this year.Orexin
The NT1 clinical trial randomized 112 patients to recenarcolepsy four oral doses of TAK-861 or placebo. After eight weeks, Takeda saw “statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in objective and subjective measures of wakefulness compared to placebo.” The measures included the maintenance of wakefulness test, the primary endpoint. Takeda hit the endpoint with a p-value of less than 0.001.
An earlier trial of TAK-994, another oral orexin receptor 2 agonist, suggested the mechanism could “take a type 1 narcolepsy patient and make them look like a healthy individual,” Andy Plump, M.D., Ph.D., the president of R&D at Takeda, told investors in July. Liver toxicity forced Takeda to dump that candidate, but it identified the more potent TAK-861 as a molecule that could better balance the benefits and risks.
Takeda is yet to shaTAK-994 safety data frorexin receptor 2 agonistorexin receptor 2udies but said the treatment was generally safe and welnarcolepsyd in both trials, with no treatment-related serious adverse events, hepatotoxicity cases or visualR&DsturTakeda.Takeda
Buoyed by the data, Takeda plans to move into phase 3 in the first half of its 2024 financial year, which starts in April. The timing keeps Takeda tucked in behind NLS Pharmaceutics, which planned to start a phase 3 trial last month, in the race to bring an orexin 2 receptor agonist to market in NT1. Another rival, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, paused a phase 1 trial last year over visual disturbances and cardiovascular effects.
Takeda retains an interest in NT2 and other conditions with normal levels of orexin. The company is still analyzing its data to inform the next steps in those settiNLS Pharmaceuticsessing multiple orexin agonists.” Plump previously laid out several paths thaorexin 2 receptor agonistorexin 2 receptorke after seeing the phase 2b data, noting Jazz Pharmaceuticalsance in NT1, NT1 plus NT2 or both settings plus additional indications.
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