Reviva Pharmaceuticals has announced positive data from a Phase II trial of RP5063 to treat schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.
The randomised double-blind study was designed to evaluate RP5063’s efficacy, safety and tolerability profile in male and female schizophrenia patients.
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Massachusetts General Hospital schizophrenia programme director and Harvard Medical School associate professor Dr Oliver Freudenreich said; "These results confirm that the dopamine serotonin stabiliser RP5063 has great promise since it is both effective and with a potentially excellent safety profile particularly with regards to metabolic problems."
The placebo-controlled, dose ranging, multi-centre study enrolled a total of 234 schizophrenia patients from the US, Asia and Europe.
Patients were randomised to receive either RP5063 at doses of 15mg, 30mg or 50mg/day, placebo or a control arm of aripiprazole (15mg).
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Overall broad efficacy of the candidate was established across the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale total scores, in addition to subscales for Positive Negative and General Psychopathology.
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By GlobalDataAn efficacy in the Clinical Global Impression Severity Scale was also noted.
RP5063 was well-tolerated with favourable safety profile in the study.
Clinically vital differences in systematic side effects between RP5063 and placebo such as motor function, cardiac metabolic parameters or in prolactin-related sexual problems were not identified.
No change was observed in normal blood chemistries haematology or urine parameters.
CRI Lifetree Philadelphia Research Center principal investigator Dr Mark Novitsky said; "These results confirm that RP5063 promises to be a ‘best in class’ dopamine serotonin stabiliser that has the potential to improve the treatment of schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder filling a much unmet medical need."
