REHOVOT, Israel, October 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
NeuroDerm Ltd., a clinical stage pharmaceutical company developing drugs for central nervous system (CNS) diseases, today announced that top-line results for ND0612L from a phase II study in patients with moderate Parkinson’s patients, and preliminary interim results from a phase IIA study of ND0612H and ND0612L in advanced Parkinson’s patients, will be presented at The Michael J. Fox Foundation’s 2014 Parkinson’s Disease Therapeutics Conference, on October 29th in New York, NY.
Details on the Presentation are as follows:
Title: Continuous Subcutaneous Administration of Levodopa/Carbidopa (ND0612) for the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease
Presenter: Sheila Oren MD
Session: Symptomatic Therapies
Date and time: Wednesday, October 29th, 2:00-3:30pm
Location: Convene Midtown East, 730 Third Ave, New York, NY About Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson’s disease affects approximately 5 million patients worldwide. It is caused by decreasing dopamine signaling in the brain as dopaminergic brain cells die off. Levodopa is the “Gold Standard” therapy for Parkinson’s disease and virtually all patients receive it, together with a levodopa degradation inhibitor (usually carbidopa). When administered through the oral route, however, levodopa plasma concentrations undergo sharp fluctuations reaching high peaks and low troughs that contribute to the clinical and motor complications in Parkinson’s patients. In advanced Parkinson’s disease patients, oral levodopa therapy becomes ineffective, leaving patients with limited treatment options that are highly invasive and/or burdensome such as deep brain stimulation or intra-duodenal LD/CD gel infusion.
About ND0612
Our product candidates, ND0612L and ND0612H, are the first liquid formulations of levodopa and carbidopa to be administered subcutaneously to conveniently achieve steady state levodopa plasma levels. Levodopa and carbidopa are nearly always administered orally and suffer from an unfavorable pharmacokinetic profile associated with this administration route. NeuroDerm’s proprietary technology for continuous subcutaneous delivery of liquid levodopa and carbidopa is a novel approach designed to improve the drugs’ pharmacokinetic profile and maintain stable, therapeutic levodopa plasma concentrations, thereby significantly ameliorating motor fluctuations and non-motor complications in Parkinson’s disease.
About NeuroDerm
NeuroDerm is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing central nervous system (CNS) product candidates that are designed to overcome major deficiencies of current treatments and achieve enhanced clinical efficacy through continuous, controlled administration. In Parkinson’s disease, the company has four product candidates in different stages of development which offer a solution for almost every Parkinson’s disease patient from the moderate to the very severe stage of the disease. The company has developed a line of LD/CD product candidates administered through small belt pumps that deliver a continuous, controlled dose of LD/CD. The LD/CD line of product candidates includes: ND0612L and ND0612H, delivered subcutaneously, for moderate and for advanced Parkinson’s disease patients, respectively, and ND0680 for a subset of severe Parkinson’s disease patients whose symptoms have advanced to a highly advanced stage, requiring even higher doses of LD/CD. In addition NeuroDerm is developing ND0701, a novel subcutaneously delivered apomorphine formulation for patients who suffer from severe Parkinson’s disease and who do not respond well to LD/CD. NeuroDerm is headquartered in the Weizmann Science Park, Rehovot, Israel.
NeuroDerm Contact:
Oded S. Lieberman, PhD MBA, CEO
oded@neuroderm.com
Tel.: +972-8-946 2729
Cell: +1-617-517 6077
U.S. Investor Contact:
David Carey
Lazar Partners Ltd.
dcarey@lazarpartners.com
+212-867-1762
U.S. Media Contact:
Hollister Hovey
Lazar Partners Ltd.
hhovey@lazarpartners.com
+212-867-1762
http://www.neuroderm.com
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