Trophos Completes Patient Enrollment in a First Study of Olesoxime in Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis

Trophos SA, a clinical stage pharmaceutical company developing innovative therapeutics from discovery to clinical validation for indications with under-served needs in neurology and cardiology, announces today that they have completed enrollment in the Translate MS-Repair Phase Ib multiple sclerosis (MS) trial.

The trial is a randomized, placebo controlled, Phase Ib study in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients treated with Trophos’ olesoxime as an add-on therapy to Interferon beta. In three months, 44 patients have been recruited in three investigational sites in France. The first subject was enrolled on April 2 and the last subject on July 11, 2013.

Though many disease-modifying treatments effectively address the inflammatory episodes in relapsing remitting MS, they have almost no effect on the long term disability associated with MS resulting from progressive neurodegeneration. Promoting remyelination and providing neuroprotection are new concepts for the treatment of MS. Trophos’ olesoxime is the most advanced oral small molecule to demonstrate these activities in relevant preclinical models.

The Phase Ib study will evaluate safety, tolerability and PK data of a six month treatment with olesoxime in MS patients stably treated with interferon beta. In addition, the study is also planned to analyze multi-center feasibility of potential imaging biomarkers as surrogate outcome measures.

The 24 month Translate MS-Repair project is funded by the French Agence Nationale de Recherche (ANR) through their Recherches Partenariales et Innovation Biomedicale 2012 program. The Translate MS-Repair consortium is led by Trophos and includes Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Marseille, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Rennes, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Reims, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique.

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