Celgene’s oral treatment candidate ozanimod can effectively reduce relapse rates in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients with mild to moderate disability, results of two Phase 3 trials show.
The company will present data on the SUNBEAM (NCT02294058) and RADIANCE (NCT02047734) trials in two presentations at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), underway in Los Angeles through April 27.
Both studies evaluated the efficacy and safety of 1 mg or 0.5 mg capsules of ozanimod compared to intramuscular injections of 30 μg of Biogen’s Avonex(interferon beta-1a) in a total of 2,659 people with relapsing MS.
During the SUNBEAM trial, patients treated daily with both ozanimod doses experienced fewer relapses per year compared to those treated with Avonex — 0.195 with ozanimod at 1 mg, 0.210 with Ozanimod at 0.5 mg, and 0.338 for those given Avonex as a weekly injection, the data show.
This beneficial effect was found both in patients new disease-modifying therapies, as well as in those who had already used such therapies.
Similar results were also reported in the RADIANCE trial, which evaluated the treatment’s effectiveness over 24 months. Both ozanimod doses were seen to be more effective in reducing annualized relapse rates (ARR) than Avonex — 0.157 and 0.228 with ozanimod 1 and 0.5 mg, respectively, and 0.246 with Avonex.
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