Solid Biosciences Reports Additional Pulmonary Function Results from the Ongoing IGNITE DMD Phase I/II Clinical Trial of SGT-001
- Improvements in two additional assessments of pulmonary function in treated patients compared with untreated control patients further support potential functional benefit of SGT-001 one-year post administration -
- Data presented at the
“Duchenne is ultimately a fatal disease, with patients often succumbing to cardiopulmonary failure as muscle cells in the diaphragm and heart deteriorate,” said Roxana Donisa Dreghici, Senior Vice President, Head of Clinical Development for
“The improvements in pulmonary function endpoints seen in the IGNITE DMD study, from baseline to one year are very promising, especially given that loss of pulmonary function leads to respiratory failure and ultimately death and, to varying degrees, impacts all patients living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy,” said
IGNITE DMD Pulmonary Function Data
The pulmonary function results include percent predicted peak expiratory flow (PEF % predicted) and forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1 % predicted) one year post SGT-001 administration. The data were collected from the first six patients dosed in IGNITE DMD (three at the low dose of 5E13 vg/kg and three at the high dose of 2E14 vg/kg) and three untreated control patients. Certain patients were not evaluable due to either missed patient assessments or not meeting the clinically acceptable criteria for the respective assessment.
- Four of these six patients dosed with SGT-001 and two of three patients in the untreated control cohort were evaluable for PEF % predicted assessment, with improvements noted in all dosed patients and declines noted in the untreated control patients. Patients in the low-dose cohort, Patients 1 and 3, demonstrated improvements in PEF % predicted from baseline to 1 year of 2.5% and 38.5%, respectively, and patients in the high-dose cohort, Patients 4 and 6, demonstrated improvements of 15.9% and 26.7%, respectively, at 1 year. Patients in the untreated control cohort, Control Patients 1 and 3 had declines of 1.1% and 18.2%, respectively, at 1 year.
- Five of these six patients dosed with SGT-001 and all three patients in the untreated control cohort were evaluable for FEV1 % predicted assessment, with improvements noted in all dosed patients and declines noted in the untreated control patients. Patients in the low-dose cohort, Patients 1 and 3, demonstrated improvements in FEV1 % predicted from baseline to 1 year of 13.4% and 4.3%, respectively, and patients in the high-dose cohort, Patients 4-6, demonstrated improvements of 10.8%, 15.5% and 2.8%, respectively, at 1 year. Patients in the untreated control cohort, Control Patients 1-3, reported declines of 8.7%, 17.0% and 12.0%, respectively, at 1 year.
These data, together with another pulmonary function endpoint, percent predicted forced vital capacity (FVC), provide further evidence that SGT-001 may benefit patients with respect to pulmonary function. Earlier this month, Solid reported positive 1.5-year data showing improvements in FVC at the
Natural history analyses of pulmonary function data suggest that patients would normally expect to exhibit a decline over the same time periods assessed.
“To our knowledge, Solid is the first company to report improvement in multiple assessments of pulmonary function following administration of a Duchenne gene therapy,” said
About SGT-001
Solid’s SGT-001 is a novel adeno-associated viral (AAV) vector-mediated gene transfer therapy designed to address the underlying genetic cause of Duchenne. Duchenne is caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene that result in the absence or near absence of dystrophin protein. SGT-001 is a systemically administered candidate that delivers a synthetic dystrophin gene, called microdystrophin, to the body. This microdystrophin encodes for a functional protein surrogate that is expressed in muscles and stabilizes essential associated proteins, including neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS). Data from Solid’s clinical program suggests that SGT-001 has the potential to slow or stop the progression of Duchenne, regardless of genetic mutation or disease stage.
SGT-001 is based on pioneering research in dystrophin biology by Dr.
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