Inoteks trabodenoson flunked phase 3 study as a monotherapy for open angle glaucoma.
Next up is combo therapy results from trabodenoson and latanoprost, a generic anti-glaucoma drug with a different mechanism of action.
The stock looks cheap and it looks risky right now.
On January 3, Inotek Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ITEK) reported failure of its lead product candidate trabodenoson to meet its very basic primary endpoint of superiority to placebo in a phase 3 trial in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension. With this failure, trabodenoson's future as a monotherapy in this indication is ruined. However, ITEK may still be a cautious short term play because of three factors - one, the company's cash balance of $138mn is more than three times its market cap of $44mn; two, the company is trading at all-time lows of around $1.65 as of Friday, and three, trabodenoson may actually have a future as a combo therapy with latanoprost, whose phase 2 topline results will come out mid-2017. Even in the failed study, trabodenoson did show that it is active, so there may be hope for the drug yet, as a combo therapy.
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