Mataró, Barcelona, Spain and Charleroi, Belgium, October 8, 2019.
Minoryx Therapeutics, a company specializing in the development of innovative treatments for orphan central nervous system (CNS) diseases, today announces that it has completed recruitment in the FRAMES phase 2 clinical trial of its novel PPARγ agonist, leriglitazone (MIN-102), in patients with Friedreich’s Ataxia.
FRAMES is a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial that will assess the efficacy and safety of leriglitazone in patients with Friedreich’s Ataxia. Recruitment of 39 patients in four European countries was completed in just four and a half months, well ahead of schedule. The patients, aged 12-60 years, will receive leriglitazone, administered once a day as an oral suspension, for a total of one year. The primary objective of the trial is to monitor the effect on disease progression. This will be measured through state-of-the art imaging of the spinal cord. Secondary objectives include safety and tolerability, effect on additional clinical measures, such as patient reported outcomes, functional disability scores and exploratory biomarkers.