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Fibrogen (Nasdaq: FGEN) On Tuesday, the corporate introduced it might lay off 75% of its staff in the USA because of disappointing scientific outcomes for its pancreatic most cancers drug candidate pamrevlumab, inflicting its inventory worth to plummet 48% in after-hours buying and selling on Tuesday.
The biotech stated the pamrevlumab trial The arm within the Pancreatic Most cancers Motion Community’s Precision Promise Part 2/3 examine didn’t meet its main endpoint of general survival in sufferers with metastatic pancreatic most cancers. The second examine, the section 3 trial known as LAPIS, additionally failed to fulfill its main endpoint of general survival. in line with an announcement.
Consequently, FibroGen will terminate improvement of pamrevlumab and cut back its U.S. workforce by 75%. It added that it might progressively cut back any remaining obligations on the product.
FibroGen stated its collaborations with AstraZeneca (AZN) in China and Astellas (OTCPK: ALPMY) (OTCPK: ALPMF) in Japan, the EU and elsewhere on the drug roxadustat stay in place.
