First-in-class anemia drug passes pivotal clinical test

30 January 2017
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San Francisco, USA-headquartered FibroGen (Nasdaq: FGEN) and its subsidiary FibroGen China today reported positive top-line results from two Phase III clinical studies of the company’s anemia candidate roxadustat (FG-4592).

Roxadustat is a first-in-class, orally-administered small molecule for the treatment of anemia in patients with chronic kidney disease.

Both of the Phase III studies met their primary efficacy endpoints in the 26 week trial, in which 151 anemia patients were enrolled, achieving a statistically-significant increase in hemoglobin levels.

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