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Concert Says Phase II Alopecia Drug Could Beat Pfizer’s Candidate To Market

 
• By Joseph Haas

While Pfizer’s JAK3 inhibitor is in Phase II/III for alopecia areata, Concert thinks its deuterium-modified ruxolitinib may get to market sooner. However, the breadth of Incyte’s ruxolinitib patent protection is unclear.

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Concert Pharmaceuticals Inc. believes it may be positioned to move ahead of Pfizer Inc. in the race to bring the first drug for alopecia areata to market, but the biotech also must stave off a patent challenge from Incyte Corp. regarding its rights to bring a deuterium-modified version of ruxolitinib to market.

Concert presented Phase IIa data for CTP-543, its deuterated formulation of Incyte and Novartis AG’s myelofibrosis drug Jakafi, dosed at 8 mg twice-daily for 24 weeks in patients with alopecia areata at the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) annual meeting March 2

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