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ASIT biotech (Paris:ASIT) (BSE:ASIT) (Euronext: ASIT - BE0974289218), a Belgian clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the research, development and future commercialization of breakthrough immunotherapy products for the treatment of allergies, announces that its Phase IIa double-blind placebo-controlled clinical study in house dust mite-induced rhinoconjunctivitis1 has completed its clinical phase.
This first clinical trial in house dust mite rhinitis was undertaken by the team led by Professor Bettina Hauswald, principal investigator, at the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital in Dresden, Germany. Of the 37 patients who began the treatment with hdm-ASIT+™, 33 attended the last visit to the allergist, giving a retention rate of 89%.
The main objectives of this study are to evaluate the drug candidate’s safety and tolerability profile and to determine the maximum cumulative dose tolerated by house dust mite allergic patients. The secondary objectives of this study are the assessment of the impact of hdm-ASIT+™ on the immune system and on the reduction of the reactivity to a conjunctival provocation test2.
During the trial, no major treatment-related adverse event was observed, even at the highest allergen dose, which is 200 times greater than the first dose administered.
ASIT biotech is currently cleaning the clinical database. This first step will be followed by the statistical analysis of the data and the publication of the clinical results by the end of the first quarter of 2017.
Thierry Legon, CEO of ASIT biotech, comments: “We are happy because the retention rate of 89% constitutes the first evidence that our second product candidate, hdm-ASIT+™, is safe and well tolerated, even at high allergen doses. We are eager to get the results related to the immunogenicity and the potential clinical effect of this product candidate targeting the worldwide-spread house dust mite allergy.”
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1 This research program is partly funded by the Walloon
region in the form of recoverable advances, in accordance with the
agreement signed at the beginning of 2016.
2 A test
enabling both the diagnosis of a patient’s allergy and the determination
of their level of hypersensitivity at various times during the
desensitization process.
About hdm-ASIT+TM
hdm-ASIT+TM product candidate for the treatment of house dust
mite allergy consists of a mixture of natural allergen fragments
obtained from a purified specific proteinic extract from house dust mite
(dermatophagoides pteronyssinus). In contrast to the synthetized
peptides, the natural peptides (70% of the fragments ranging from
1,000
The administration schedule of the treatment should be of short duration
compared with currently commercialised treatments. This should
constitute a major competitive advantage to improve the acceptance and
the compliance of the patients. In addition, the administration schedule
includes successive injections with half of the visit dose in both arms,
an innovative solution that enables the delivery of the total dose
necessary for the therapeutic effect in a faster and safer way. Finally,
the product candidate is formulated without adjuvant, which increases
the long-term safety of the product by decreasing the local and general
reactogenicity as well as the frequency of the adverse events, which
represents a further advantage in markets less permissive to adjuvanted
formulations (e.g. US).
About ASIT biotech
ASIT biotech is a Belgian clinical stage biopharmaceutical company
focused on the development and future commercialisation of a range of
breakthrough immunotherapy products for the treatment of allergies.
Thanks to its innovative ASIT+™ technology platform, ASIT biotech is
currently the only developer of AIT product candidates consisting of a
unique mixture of highly purified natural allergen fragments in an
optimal size selection. This innovation results in a short treatment,
expected to improve patient compliance and real-life effectiveness. ASIT
biotech’s product pipeline entails two novel ASIT+™ product candidates
targeting respiratory allergy with the highest prevalence (i.e. grass
pollen: gp-ASIT+™ and house dust mite: hdm-ASIT+™), that could
significantly expand the current immunotherapy market. The Company
believes that its innovative ASIT+™ platform is flexible and would be
applicable across a range of allergies.
ASIT biotech has a headcount of 22 staff members, at its headquarters in
Brussels and a laboratory in Liège, Belgium.
Further information can be found at: www.asitbiotech.com.
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