Orphazyme CEO disappointed with failed ALS trial – pins hope on other disease area

Christophe Bourdon, Orphazyme's new CEO, is candid about the group's main candidate against ALS, arimoclomol, came out of its phase-3 trial with weak results.
Photo: Orphazyme / PR
Photo: Orphazyme / PR
BY CHRISTOPHER DUE KARLSSON, TRANSLATED BY DANIEL FRANK CHRISTENSEN & CATHERINE BRETT

It's disappointing that Orphazyme's main treatment candidate,against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, arimoclomol, did not meet expectations in its phase III trial, Chief Executive Christophe Bourdon tells MedWatch after the news emerged Friday that the product has not been able to fulfill neither the primary nor secondary criteria in the crucial phase III trial.

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