Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Alopecia Areata Clinical Trial Comparison

Concert Pharmaceuticals, just released CTP-543 Phase 2 Results for patients with moderate to severe Alopecia Areata. The phase 2 results included the 12 mg cohort of the clinical trial, in addition to the already completed 8 mg results. Below are comparison's made with Pfizer's drug PFE-06651600 Phase 2 Alopecia Areata. As seen by the data below, Concert's CTP-543's 12 mg results are shown to be the most efficacious versus their own 8 mg arm, and against Pfizer's PFE-06651600 at 24 weeks. The SALT % Increase (mean) drop from baseline (CTP-543 SALT dropped- 50%), is on a percentage basis the largest SALT improvement of the three results below. Results below are relative improvement from baseline, not placebo adjusted.
  • SALT Score of 100 = zero hair growth
  • SALT Score of 0 = full hair growth 
The percentage drop of SALT score (hair growth improvement) is one of the tools used to evaluate the efficacy of different Alopecia clinical trial drugs. Next CTP-543 will be tested in two large phase 3 clinical trials, but that won't occur until around mid 2020. 
                                                                  
PFE-06651600    
 Total (n=45) at 24 weeks  
  Baseline End of Treatment 
SALT (mean) 88.154.5  
SALT Increase (mean)-33.6   
SALT % Increase (mean)0     38.1%  
% SALT Reduction% of 45 Patients Achieving Better SALT Scores
30%  47.9%  
50%  37.5%  
75%  27.0%  
90%  25.0%  
100%  12.5%  
CTP-543 8mg    
 Total (n=38) 24 weeks    
  Baseline End of Treatment 
SALT (mean) 89.151.7  
SALT Increase (mean)-37.4   
SALT % Increase (mean)0     42.0%  
% SALT Reduction% of 38 Patients Achieving Better SALT Scores
30%  not measured 
50%  47.0%  
75%  29.0%  
90%  16.0%  
CTP-543 12mg    
 Total (n=36) 24 weeks   
  BaselineEnd of Treatment 
SALT (mean) 87.343.6  
SALT Increase (mean)-43.6   
SALT % Increase (mean)0     50.0%  
% SALT Reduction% of 36 Patients Achieving Better SALT Scores
30%  not measured 
50%  58.0%  
75%  42.0%  
90%  36.0%