RE: Unfortunately4 Apr 2017 13:10
Ah Mert i was meant to answer that yesterday.
It can be done - but I would recommend against it.
Currently most/all NSAID's irritate the GI so OXP's filing is pointing out a big gap that is easily defined and justified.
The issue with releasing reduced GI to full "No GI irritation" is you have tightened the gap to which the medicine has a clearly better effect towards patient needs.
Basically OXP would have to fulfill more stringent tighter specs to justify the 2nd gen product. If the 1st works well enough for patient needs why release a 2nd gen which only improves it a little?
Secondly, the time it will take to go through filing and audits and commercial scalability and packaging for reduced GI product the trial will be finished and if it passess all that previous work needs updating and changing. So its a difficult risk/reward decision. Pharma takes a long time and is very letigious so generally speaking they go for a risk assessed approach and have clear defined goals.
Again, the fundamentals here are this is a company with official feedback that its primary goal to go commercial is one more clinical trial.
To me, for an AIM pharma at an SP at cash in bank is a BARGAIN. The previous clinical studies passed very well and there is nothing to suggest this next one will not pass in the same way.