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Concert’s Patient-Reported Outcome Could Help Differentiate Its Alopecia Therapy

 
• By Joseph Haas

Concert’s CTP-543 would be second or third to market in alopecia areata, behind Lilly and likely Pfizer, but the biotech thinks its drug will have the best profile based on efficacy and patient satisfaction.

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Patient-reported outcome data might be difference maker for Concert's alopecia drug • Source: Shutterstock

Strong patient-reported outcomes in its pivotal trials may help Concert Pharmaceuticals, Inc.’s alopecia areata candidate CTP-543 compete against heavyweights from Eli Lilly and Company and Pfizer Inc.; the deuterated formulation of ruxolitinib (Lilly/Incyte Corporation’s Jakafi) is on track for an early 2023 new drug application filing and is likely to be the third drug approval for the hair-loss condition.

Concert unveiled positive top-line data on 1 August from its Phase III THRIVE-AA2 study, which CEO Roger Tung called confirmatory...

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