AstraZeneca and Ionis Pharmaceuticals' Wainua drug fails Phase 3 trial for heart condition, challenging market expectations.
AstraZeneca and Ionis Pharmaceuticals reported that their antisense oligonucleotide drug, Wainua (eplontersen), failed a Phase 3 trial for transthyretin-mediated amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM). Data presented at the European Society of Cardiology meeting revealed a hazard ratio of 1.14, indicating that patients taking Wainua in combination with standard treatments had a 14% higher rate of cardiovascular mortality and recurrent clinical events compared to the placebo group. While Wainua showed a respectable 29% improvement as a monotherapy, the combination results were less favorable than expected. This outcome challenges the success of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals' Amvuttra, which was previously thought to have significant additive benefits when combined with stabilizers. Analysts suggest that the negative results for Wainua may indicate that combining
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