Ascletis Announces First Participants with Obesity or Overweight Dosed in a U.S. 13-week Phase IIa Study of Small Molecule Oral GLP-1R Agonist ASC30

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[{"type":"text","content":"-  First participants with obesity or overweight with at least one weight-related comorbidity have been dosed in a U.S. 13-week Phase IIa study of small molecule oral GLP-1 receptor agonist ASC30.","length":211,"tagName":"p","attribs":{}},{"type":"text","content":"-  ASC30 oral once-daily tablet demonstrated up to 6.5% placebo-adjusted mean body weight reduction from baseline after four-week treatment in a U.S. Phase Ib study.","length":175,"tagName":"p","attribs":{}},{"type":"text","content":"-  Topline data from ASC30 oral 13-week Phase IIa study are expected in the fourth quarter 2025.","length":106,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"HONG KONG, July 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Ascletis Pharma Inc. (HKEX: 1672, "Ascletis") announces today that the first participants with obesity or overweight with at least one weight-related comorbidity have been dosed in a U.S. 13-week Phase IIa study of small molecule oral GLP-1 receptor (GLP-1R) agonist ASC30 for the treatment of obesity (NCT07002905).","length":381,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"The Phase IIa study is a 13-week, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled and multi-center study to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and tolerability in participants with obesity (body mass index (BMI) ≥ 30 kg/m2) or overweight (BMI ≥ 27 kg/m2 but < 30 kg/m2) with at least one weight-related comorbidity. Two oral formulations of ASC30, once-daily are being evaluated: formulation 1 (ASC30 tablets) and formulation 2 (ASC30 tablets A1). The primary endpoint of this Phase IIa study is the mean percentage body weight change from baseline at Week 13. The tolerability and efficacy data from the ASC30 oral Phase Ia and Ib studies (NCT06680440) support a lower starting dose and slower titration strategy for the 13-week Phase IIa study design of ASC30 oral once-daily (Press Release). The 13-week Phase IIa study protocol has a lower starting dose of 1 mg of both formulation 1 and formulation 2, with weekly titrations to the desired maintenance doses of 20 mg and 40 mg of formulation 1 or 20 mg, 40 mg and 60 mg of formulation 2.","length":1068,"tagName":"p","attribs":{}},{"type":"text","content":"Both formulations 1 and 2 have been evaluated in the oral ASC30 Phase Ia single ascending dose (SAD) study (N...

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