Will 2021 Be A Turning Point For Pharnext?

After manufacturing issues disrupted a Phase III study for its lead pipeline candidate, Pharnext believes it is back on track with new management, a fresh clinical trial and strong guidance from regulators. New CEO David Horn Solomon has blockbuster expectations for the company’s rare disease drug. 

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Pharnext moves rare disease drug closer to the market

David Horn Solomon joined Pharnext SA, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that is developing new drug combinations based on big genomic data and artificial intelligence, in April 2020. He told In Vivo in an exclusive interview that he was attracted to Pharnext, a company that had been struggling with manufacturing challenges for its lead pipeline candidate, because of the clinical data it had produced for the rare disease Charcot-Marie-Tooth. There are no currently approved therapies for the disease.

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