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Corcept’s Coup De GRACE

 
• By Elizabeth Cairns

The follow-on Cushing’s product relacorilant has hit in Phase III, and is forecast to lead the market – eventually.    

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With sales of Korlym (mifepristone), the leading Cushing’s disease drug, forecast to start falling next year, Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated  needs a new money-spinner. Thanks to a hit in the pivotal GRACE trial, it appears to have one in relacorilant.

Key Takeaways
  • The GRACE trial of Corcept Therapeutics’ Cushing’s disease candidate relacorilant has succeeded in its pivotal trial.

Relacorilant, like its predecessor, aims to treat Cushing’s by modulating cortisol levels by competing with it at the glucocorticoid receptor....

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