Shares of Eloxx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ELOX) are down over 42% at $0.22 in premarket trading session on Thursday, following disappointing results from the company's phase II combination trial of ELX-02 in Class 1 cystic fibrosis patients.
The phase II combination clinical trial was designed to evaluate safety and assess biological activity of of ELX-02 in Class 1 cystic fibrosis patients as monotherapy and in combination with Ivacaftor.
The trial included a 1-week monotherapy period followed by a four-week combination period.
The study did not achieve statistical significance for efficacy endpoints, including changes from baseline in sweat chloride concentration (SCC) and percent forced expiratory volume (FEV1).
ELX-02 was well tolerated with no drug-related serious adverse events observed.
CF patients with a Class 1 nonsense mutation remain highly underserved with no approved disease modifying therapies. An estimated 10-12% of CF patients are Class 1 patients
ELOX has traded in a range of $0.21 to $1.89 in the last 52 weeks. The stock closed Wednesday's trading at $0.38, up 0.24%.
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