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Arena Updates Etrasimod Timelines, Introduces New Drug Candidate

Late-Stage S1P Modulator Data Due Later In 2021, Early In 2022

 
• By Mandy Jackson

CEO Amit Munshi told the J.P. Morgan meeting the company will double the size of its clinical-stage cardiovascular disease pipeline with the addition of temanogrel.

Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. CEO Amit Munshi provided assurances during the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference on 13 January that the company is intensely focused on the initial opportunity for its selective S1P receptor modulator etrasimod in ulcerative colitis. But with Phase III data in UC a year or more away, the company offered up news of a new drug candidate and revealed updated timelines for etrasimod and other clinical-stage programs.

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