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NeuroSense's PARADIGM ALS Clinical Trial
Demonstrates Up to 73% Improved Complication-Free Survival Following Statistically Significant Slowing of Disease Progression
NeuroSense to submit the 12-month data to FDA
to discuss path forward
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 9,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- NeuroSense Therapeutics Ltd. (NASDAQ: NRSN) ("NeuroSense"), a late-clinical stage
biotechnology company developing novel treatments for severe neurodegenerative diseases, announces additional positive results from
its 12-month PARADIGM Phase 2b study of PrimeC in ALS patients. In the study, complication-free survival revealed a 57% difference
in favor of PrimeC over placebo after 12 months of treatment in the Intent to Treat (ITT) population and demonstrated an
outcome of 73% (p=0.02) difference in favor of PrimeC over placebo after 12 months of treatment in the pre-defined Per Protocol
Population (PP). NeuroSense intends to submit these 12-month results to regulatory agencies, including the FDA, to discuss
PrimeC's path forward in the short term.
Previously, NeuroSense reported
that PrimeC significantly slowed disease progression by 36% (p=0.009) and improved survival rates by 43% compared to placebo. The Per-Protocol
analysis revealed even greater benefits, with a 40% (p=0.003) improvement in ALSFRS-R scores and a 63% increase in survival rates, representing
a distinguished advancement in outcomes for a controlled 12-month ALS study.
Other positive clinical data
points included Slow Vital Capacity (SVC) improvement from a 13% difference after 6 months to a 20% difference after 12 months in the
ITT population, in favor of PrimeC, and from a 17% difference after 6 months to a 19% difference after 12 months in the PP population,
in favor of PrimeC. Furthermore, an analysis exploring the rate of decline, defined as a drop of 4 points or less in the ALSFRS-R after
12 months, revealed a ratio of 4.5 to 1 in favor of PrimeC over placebo. This outcome underscores the importance of early treatment and
the potential of PrimeC as a disease-modifying drug.
"The latest results from
the PARADIGM study are incredibly encouraging and provide compelling evidence of PrimeC's potential to significantly benefit people
living with ALS. The substantial improvement in complication-free survival and the consistent slowing of disease progression highlight
PrimeC's promise as an effective treatment. Given that, for many clinicians and people with ALS, therapeutic options have recently
been significantly limited; the urgency for effective new therapies is greater than ever. This development brings renewed hope to patients,
and I am eagerly looking forward to seeing the program enter Phase 3 to advance the clinical development of this product," said Jeremy
M. Shefner, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Neurology at the Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Ariz., and a NeuroSense advisor.
Alon Ben-Noon, NeuroSense's CEO,
commented: "We believe that these results are unprecedented in a 12-month ALS placebo-controlled clinical study. We are eager to
present them to the FDA and other regulatory agencies to determine the path forward and to share the outcomes with potential partners
currently conducting due diligence. As a management team, we are both confident and enthusiastic about the potential for PrimeC in the
is equally important to recognize that our clinical team has accomplished a great deal in a rather short time, and we are grateful for
their involvement in the development program, as well as the study coordinators and teams, and of course, the study participants and their
families. We look forward to continued communications on developments, as appropriate, including biomarker readouts for target engagement,
which we expect will shed additional light on PrimeC's potential to benefit people who suffer from ALS."
lateral sclerosis ("ALS") is an incurable neurodegenerative disease that causes complete paralysis and death within 2-5 years
from diagnosis. Every year, more than 5,000 people are diagnosed with ALS in the U.S. alone, with an annual disease burden of $1
billion. The number of people living with ALS is expected to grow by 24% by 2040 in the U.S. and EU.
Disease progression is measured by the ALS Functional
Rating Scale-Revised (ALSFRS-R), which is the most widely used ALS tracking tool accepted by the FDA, utilized by neurologists treating
ALS patients, in clinical trials, and by other regulators to determine disease progression. It tracks 12 changes in a person's physical
abilities over time including functions such as: speech, walking, climbing stairs, dressing/hygiene, handwriting, turning in bed, cutting
food, salivation, swallowing, and breathing. A single point change on the ALSFRS-R has a significant impact on ALS patients, such as the
transition from independent feeding to requiring assistance or independent breathing to needing to use a machine ventilator.
is a prospective, multinational, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2b (NCT05357950) clinical trial of PrimeC in ALS.
The trial included 68 participants living with ALS in Canada, Italy, and Israel. 96% of the trial participants who completed the 6-month
double-blind portion of the trial chose to receive treatment with PrimeC through a 12-month open label extension. Furthermore, to date
(June 2024) all participants that completed the 18-month trial treatment duration, requested to continue PrimeC, which is provided to
them in an Investigator Initiated Trial, not limited with time.
reported, in the 6-month double-blind segment of the trial, the data showed clinically meaningful signs of efficacy, with a 29% difference
in favor of PrimeC vs placebo in analysis of the intent to treat (ITT) population. In the PP top-line analysis from PARADIGM, a
statistically significant slowing of disease progression was observed with a 37.4% (p=0.03) difference in ALSFRS-R in favor of PrimeC
vs placebo. Most patients enrolled in both the active and placebo arms of the trial were concurrently
treated with Riluzole, the ALS standard of care medication, indicating PrimeC slowed disease progression well beyond the level afforded
by the FDA-approved ALS drug.
PrimeC, NeuroSense's lead drug candidate, is a novel extended-release
oral formulation composed of a unique fixed-dose combination of two FDA-approved drugs: ciprofloxacin and celecoxib. PrimeC is designed
to synergistically target several key mechanisms of ALS that contribute to motor neuron degeneration, inflammation, iron accumulation
and impaired ribonucleic acid ("RNA") regulation to potentially inhibit the progression of ALS. NeuroSense completed a Phase
2a clinical trial, which met its safety and efficacy endpoints, including reducing functional and respiratory deterioration and statistically
significant changes in ALS-related biological markers, indicating PrimeC's biological activity. PrimeC was granted Orphan Drug
Designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency.
Therapeutics, Ltd. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing treatments for patients suffering from
debilitating neurodegenerative diseases. NeuroSense believes that these diseases, which include amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS),
Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, among others, represent one of the most significant unmet medical needs of our time, with
limited effective therapeutic options available for patients to date. Due to the complexity of neurodegenerative diseases and based on
strong scientific research on a large panel of related biomarkers, NeuroSense's strategy is to develop combined therapies targeting multiple
pathways associated with these diseases.
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R&D costs or operating expenses, a delay in the reporting of additional results from PARADIGM clinical trial, the timing of expected
regulatory and business milestones, risks associated with meeting with the FDA to determine the best path forward following the results
from PARADIGM clinical trial, including a delay in any such meeting; the potential for PrimeC to safely and effectively target ALS; preclinical
and clinical data for PrimeC; the uncertainty regarding outcomes and the timing of current and future clinical trials; timing for reporting
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