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Rocket Pharmaceuticals Reaches FDA Alignment on Pivotal Phase 2 Trial Design for RP-A501 in Danon Disease
Final alignment reached on a 12 patient, single-arm, open label study with a biomarker based co-primary endpoint assessed at 12 months to support accelerated
About this update from Rocket Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
[{"type":"text","content":"\nFinal alignment reached on a 12 patient, single-arm, open label study with a biomarker based co-primary endpoint assessed at 12 months to support accelerated approval\n\n\nCo-primary endpoint consisting of LAMP2 protein expression and Left Ventricular (LV) Mass change from baseline\n\n\n CRANBURY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nRocket Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: RCKT), a leading late-stage biotechnology company advancing an integrated and sustainable pipeline of genetic therapies for rare disorders with high unmet need, today announced that alignment has been reached with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the global Phase 2 pivotal trial of RP-A501 for Danon Disease. Danon Disease is a uniformly fatal inherited cardiomyopathy that leads to mortality in the majority of male patients at age ~20 and females at age ~40, and for which there are no approved curative or disease-modifying therapies. The disease affects an estimated 15,000 to 30,000 patients in the U.S. and Europe.\n\n\n“I am very excited to announce our alignment with the FDA on our pivotal study design for RP-A501 for Danon Disease, which reflects the highly collaborative discussions with the review team and senior management at FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research and marks the first-ever regulatory pathway to approval for a genetic treatment for heart disease. We believe this milestone sets us on the most efficient and rapid path to delivering this potentially transformative therapy to Danon Disease patients who would otherwise progress to heart transplantation or death,” said Gaurav Shah, M.D., Chief Executive Officer, Rocket Pharma. “I would also like to highlight the work conducted by our CMC team over the past several years to establish our in-house cGMP manufacturing capabilities, which has already provided us with sufficient material for the pivotal study and should support our eventual commercialization efforts.”\n\n\nDr. Shah continued “As a one-time potentially curative infusion, RP-A501 has the potential to restore normal cardiac function and provide a lifetime of benefit to patients with Danon Disease who have no other viable treatment options. With today’s progress in our Danon Disease program, we believe we are forging a path to bring curative gene therapies to patients affected by devastating cardiovascular diseases and broadening t...