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Interview: The Pace Quickens For Calliditas's Berger's Disease Candidate

 
• By John Davis

A Phase III trial design change could result in quicker patient access for Calliditas’s product candidate for Berger’s disease, and boost the growth potential for the Swedish biotech.    

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Calliditas CEO Renee Aguiar-Lucander • Source: Calliditas

The past 12 months or so have seen Calliditas Therapeutics AB attract a Chinese partner, start a Phase III study of its lead product, and conduct a follow-on financing to its June 2018 IPO. All of this has improved business options for the Swedish biotech and, in particular, “the capital has given us flexibility,” noted Calliditas’s CEO, Renée Aguiar-Lucander.

But possibly of greater significance for Calliditas are recent changes to the design of the Phase III study of its...

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