Open Orphan PLC - pharmaceutical services provider - Sees positive results from a human challenge study assessing its respiratory syncytial virus antiviral candidate, EDP-938. Says results from the study have been published in The New England Journal of Medicine. hVIVO, a subsidiary of Open Orphan, conducted the Phase 2a, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
Andrew Catchpole, chief scientific officer of hVIVO, says: "It's pleasing to see another of our clients getting such positive results from a human challenge study that we conducted, and that the data has been published in The New England Journal of Medicine. EDP-938 is a potentially important medicine that could help reduce the global impact of RSV, and I look forward to following Enanta's continued progression of the candidate through further clinical trials."
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