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Fulcrum Therapeutics Provides Business Update on Impact of COVID-19
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 02, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fulcrum Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: FULC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on
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[{"type":"text","content":"CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 02, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fulcrum Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: FULC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on improving the lives of patients with genetically defined rare diseases, today provided a business update in the context of the developing situation with the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.\n “During the unprecedented challenges we all face with the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, we have recently implemented plans to protect the safety, health and well-being of the patients, families and healthcare professionals involved in our clinical development programs, as well as our employees,” said Robert J. Gould, Ph.D., Fulcrum’s president and chief executive officer. “A number of our clinical trial sites are temporarily postponing trial-related activities in the wake of COVID-19. While we are fully focused on moving our clinical programs forward, Fulcrum supports this temporary reallocation of resources to ensure hospitals and healthcare workers can focus on meeting the needs of patients with COVID-19. I am confident in Fulcrum’s ability to face this challenge with tenacity, humility, and spirit. FSHD is an area of tremendous unmet need, we remain as eager as ever to continue to advance a therapy that may impact patients.” Losmapimod for Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD) Program Update The Company’s ReDUX4 trial is fully enrolled. As a result of the suspension of clinical-trial activity by a number of the Company’s clinical trial sites stemming from the pandemic, the Company is currently assessing the impact to the ReDUX4 clinical trial, including whether it will have topline data for the primary endpoint by the end of the third quarter of 2020 as previously disclosed. Fulcrum plans to provide a further update when it has more clarity. ReDUX4 is an international, multicenter, randomized, Phase 2b double-blind, placebo-controlled, 24-week trial of losmapimod in 80 patients with genetically confirmed facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). Employee Safety Fulcrum has instituted a mandatory work-from-home policy for the majority of its employees. The duration of this remote working arrangement will be guided by the direction of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and actions and guidelines issued by the U.S. federal government, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...