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Pliant Therapeutics Presents Data from its Bexotegrast Program at the European Respiratory Society International Congress 2024
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pliant Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLRX), a late-stage biotechnology company and leader in the
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[{"type":"text","content":"SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pliant Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLRX), a late-stage biotechnology company and leader in the discovery and development of novel therapeutics for the treatment of fibrotic diseases, announced its presentations at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress 2024 taking place in Vienna, Austria September 7 - 11, 2024. “Presentations made by Pliant colleagues and investigators at the 2024 ERS Congress include additional clinical data from our recently announced type 1 collagen PET imaging study, an integrated safety summary from our INTEGRIS clinical programs and non-clinical data from our bexotegrast development program. Taken together, these data provide further support for the late-stage development of this novel therapeutic as part of our ongoing BEACON-IPF trial,” said Éric Lefebvre, M.D., Chief Medical Officer at Pliant Therapeutics. Bexotegrast reduces type 1 collagen deposition in participants with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) after 12 weeks of therapy In a late-breaker oral presentation, Sydney B. Montesi, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Havard Medical School presented results from the first interventional Phase 2, single-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (NCT05621252) evaluating type 1 collagen deposition by positron emission tomography (PET) imaging in the lungs of participants with IPF. Following 12 weeks of treatment, bexotegrast demonstrated a reduction in type 1 collagen in contrast to an increase on placebo, supporting bexotegrast’s antifibrotic effects and suggesting favorable lung remodeling. In addition, treatment with bexotegrast showed numerical improvements in forced vital capacity, cough severity, and prognostic biomarkers, suggesting its potential for disease modification in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Lastly, measurements by dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI), bexotegrast demonstrated an increased peak enhancement and a faster contrast washout rate, suggesting improvements in lung microvasculature and decreased extravascular extracellular volume, further supporting the PET imaging findings. Safety and tolerability of bexotegrast in Phase 2 trials of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and primary sclerosing cholangiti...