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Sponsors Flesh Out Profiles of New Dermatology Drugs At AAD Meeting

 
• By Emily Hayes

Additional data for J&J's guselkumab, Regeneron/Sanofi's Dupixent, Lilly's Taltz and UCB/Dermira's Cimzia featured at the American Academy of Dermatology meeting in Orlando, Fla. March 3-7.

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Johnson & Johnson reported positive results for its IL-23 inhibitor guselkumab against AbbVie Inc.’s anti-tumor necrosis factor drug Humira in the VOYAGE-2 psoriasis study, the second positive Phase III head-to-head study in the indication, following VOYAGE-1.

The drug met a co-primary endpoint related to improvement after 16 weeks in disease severity, measured by the Psoriasis Area Severity Index-90 (PASI 90), meaning a 90% improvement or almost complete skin clearance: 70% for test drug versus 2.4% for placebo

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