Enanta Pharmaceuticals…today announced positive data from the first two dose cohorts of Part 2 of its Phase 1b study of EDP-514 in chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) patients already being treated with a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NUC). The data demonstrated that EDP-514, the Company’s novel class II oral HBV core inhibitor, was safe and well-tolerated, displayed pharmacokinetics (PK) supportive of once-daily dosing, and resulted in a mean reduction in HBV RNA of 1 log.
The 800mg cohort is ongoing. Each of the three dosing cohorts and the placebo control arm has 6 patients. Patients are treated for 28 days.
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