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Company News: vasopharm Reports Endorsement of Phase III Trial Design in Traumatic Brain Injury by European Medicines Agency

– Company receives protocol assistance from the EMA

– Agreement on endpoint, dosing scheme, trial size and use of Phase II dataset

vasopharm GmbH, a privately held biopharmaceutical company focusing on novel therapeutics for the treatment of cerebro- and cardiovascular diseases, today announced the positive outcome of a scientific advice meeting with the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has agreed to all major items of vasopharm’s proposed protocol for the realisation of a European Phase III study of VAS203 in patients suffering from traumatic brain injury (TBI).

In essence, the CHMP agreed on the primary endpoint, the proposed dosing scheme and the trial size. For the final evaluation, the CHMP further agreed to include the available Phase II dataset as supportive information for a potential approval of VA203 in the treatment of TBI patients. VAS203, the company’s lead compound, is an allosteric nitric oxide synthase inhibitor and in development for the treatment of TBI patients. The compound met all clinical endpoints for safety and demonstrated strong evidence of clinical benefit in the explorative Phase IIa NOSTRA trial in TBI patients. The trial was completed in 2012.

The company is also seeking advice from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in order to include U.S.-based clinic trial centres in a single Phase III trial in patients with TBI.