
After an independent data safety monitoring board has looked through preliminary data from Galecto's phase IIb study of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), the company has been forced to rearrange the trial on the basis of the monitoring board's recommendations, according to a press statement.
The recommendation states that Galecto should stop dosing the drug GB0139 in its highest dose, 10 mg, since an imbalance has been observed in the various patient groups in the study. Namely among the patients receiving the lowest dose, 3 mg, in combination with existing standard treatments for IPF and the drugs nintedanib and pirfenidone.
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