Roche Tries Again With Failed Huntington’s Drug Tominersen

Potential In Younger Adults

Despite disappointment in its Phase III study, Roche is preparing a new trial of the antisense therapy in patients with a lower disease burden.

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Roche is committed to pursuing neurodegeneration diseases - despite the current high level of failure in the field. • Source: Alamy

Roche is not ready to throw in the towel with its Huntington’s disease candidate, tominersen, despite a Phase III failure, and is to start a new trial in the hope it could work in a subgroup of patients.

The Swiss pharma company halted dosing in its Phase III GENERATION HD1 study in March 2021 after it failed to...

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