Innovation Pharmaceuticals Inc (IPIX)

[PlentyParanoid]

If the 'interim' analysis was in the trial protocol submitted to FDA then it means it got FDA's sign-off. I can't stop wondering why FDA would do that, just for fun or to see if the IPIX bunch is really stupid enough to follow thru? Snapshot in mid-treatment and 10 weeks before the trial is guaranteed to be completed is, as far as I can tell, a sizeable waste of money plus, also, a very unusual interim analysis design in a time limited, blinded, interventional psoriasis trial. It does not have any cost savings or patient benefit value as futility stop measure and a limited value as a predictor for the significance of the final outcome.

Yes, IPIX may have run the analysis anyway. I doubt if seeing the results told them a thing beyond prurisol not being in the class of biologics and that fact was known already. Still, it may have been enough to silence Leo.