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SAGE Therapeutics Reports Positive Top-Line Phase 2 Data of SAGE-547 in Patients With Super-Refractory Status Epilepticus
SAGE-547 Met Primary and Secondary Efficacy and Safety Endpoint Targets
Overall Response Rate of 73 Percent Reported with No Drug-Related SAEs
"We believe SAGE-547 has the potential to dramatically improve the therapeutic approach for patients with SRSE, and the efficacy and safety results from this trial support our continued development of SAGE-547 as a treatment for this disorder," said
Top-line data reported from 12 patients, eight males and four females with a mean age of 54, enrolled in the study show that all 12 patients met the primary endpoint, safety and tolerability. Of the 11 patients evaluable for efficacy, eight patients met the key efficacy endpoint of being successfully weaned off their anesthetic agents while SAGE-547 was being administered, and eight patients were successfully weaned off SAGE-547 without recurrence of SRSE. The mean duration of status epilepticus prior to treatment with SAGE-547 was 11 days. With an overall response rate of 73 percent, SAGE-547 was generally well tolerated and no drug-related serious adverse events, as determined by the Safety Review Committee, were reported in treated patients. Mean exposure levels of SAGE-547 were approximately 200nm.
The Phase 1/2 open-label trial of SAGE-547 as an adjunctive therapy was designed to provide clear data around safety, exposure and the ability of SAGE-547 to effectively halt SRSE. The trial enrolled adult patients with SRSE who have not responded to conventional therapy with continuous intravenous antiepileptic agents and who remain in a state of persistent seizure following one or more weaning attempts from general anesthesia. In the trial, patients are administered SAGE-547 intravenously for five days while weaning from anesthesia is attempted and are monitored for four weeks following treatment with SAGE-547.
Trial Will Continue Enrollment Under Protocol Amendment
The
"We are pleased that we were able to complete this portion of our development plan ahead of our projected timelines and would like to thank all of our investigators, patients and their families involved in this trial," commented
Updated SAGE-547 Emergency-Use Results
In addition to the top-line Phase 1/2 trial results, SAGE reported that seven patients, four males and three females with a mean age of 12.5, have been treated with SAGE-547 by independent centers under emergency-use Investigational New Drug (IND) Applications. Five of these patients treated with SAGE-547 achieved resolution of SRSE either during the course of or soon after SAGE-547 treatment. The overall response rate was 71 percent, similar to the observed response rate in the Phase 1/2 clinical trial.
The active pharmaceutical ingredient, treatment IND and support for emergency-use patients have been contributed under agreement by the Regents of the University of
About SAGE-547
SAGE-547 is an allosteric modulator of both synaptic and extra-synaptic GABAA receptors. GABAA receptors are widely regarded as validated drug targets for a variety of disorders, with decades of research and multiple approved drugs targeting these receptor systems. SAGE-547 is an intravenous agent in Phase 1/2 clinical development as an adjunctive therapy, a therapy combined with current therapeutic approaches, for the treatment of SRSE, as well as in an exploratory Phase 2 clinical trial for the treatment of essential tremor. In 2014, the
About Status Epilepticus (SE)
SE is a life-threatening seizure condition that occurs in approximately 150,000 people each year in the U.S., of which 30,000 SE patients die.1 We estimate that there are 35,000 patients with SE in the U.S. that are hospitalized in the intensive care unit (ICU) each year. An SE patient is first treated with benzodiazepines, and if no response, is then treated with other, second-line, anti-seizure drugs. If the seizure persists after the second-line therapy, the patient is diagnosed as having refractory SE (RSE), admitted to the ICU and placed into a medically induced coma. Currently, there are no therapies that have been specifically approved for RSE; however, physicians typically use anesthetic agents to induce the coma and stop the seizure immediately. After a period of 24 hours, an attempt is made to wean the patient from the anesthetic agents to evaluate whether or not the seizure condition has resolved. Unfortunately, not all patients respond to weaning attempts, in which case the patient must be maintained in the medically induced coma. At this point, the patient is diagnosed as having SRSE. Currently, there are no therapies specifically approved for SRSE.
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Forward-Looking Statements
Various statements in this release concerning SAGE's future expectations, plans and prospects, including without limitation, SAGE's expectations regarding SAGE-547 as a treatment for SRSE and essential tremor, the expected development pathway for its other drug candidates and its expectations with respect to the timing and success of its clinical trials, in particular a new clinical trial for SAGE-547 as a treatment for SRSE and whether such trial will be deemed by
1 DeLorenzo, Robert J., Pellock, John M.,
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