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Five Promising Treatment Areas in Early-Phase Drug Development in 2024

Alta Sciences

Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic approved in 2019 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a nasal spray called esketamine, for treatment-resistant depression. And since proteins are often linked to disease, there's huge potential to treat a broad range of diseases with this technology. Asia, and Europe.

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Roche expands its multiple sclerosis portfolio with investigational BTK inhibitor fenebrutinib and initiates novel clinical trials for OCREVUS (ocrelizumab)

The Pharma Data

Roche is therefore initiating two new Phase IIIb trials, one in RMS (named MUSETTE) and one in PPMS (named GAVOTTE), which will evaluate a higher OCREVUS dose compared with the currently approved 600 mg dose, with both evaluated at the twice-yearly (six-monthly) dosing schedule. In 2019, Roche invested CHF 11.7

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Roche to present new data in multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder at MSVirtual2020

The Pharma Data

New Phase III data from SAkuraStar and SAkuraSky studies demonstrate reduced severity of relapses with ENSPRYNG (satralizumab), recently FDA-approved as the first and only subcutaneous treatment for adults living with anti-aquaporin-4 (AQP4) antibody positive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD).