Oryzon Genomics — Clinical milestone reached with FRIDA initiation

Oryzon Genomics (BME: ORY)

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Oryzon Genomics — Clinical milestone reached with FRIDA initiation

Oryzon Genomics has announced it has enrolled the first patient in its Phase Ib FRIDA study investigating iadademstat in combination with Astellas’ FDA-approved FLT3 inhibitor gilteritinib to treat FLT3+ relapsed/refractory (r/r) acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) patients. The FRIDA study is central to Oryzon’s overall strategy as management believes the second-line AML setting may represent a potentially quicker route to market for iadademstat, targeting an AML patient population with limited and sub-optimal treatment options. FRIDA will recruit up to 45 patients across 10–15 trial sites in the United States and, in our view, its initiation marks a significant clinical milestone for the company.

Soo Romanoff

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Soo Romanoff

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Healthcare

Oryzon Genomics

Clinical milestone reached with FRIDA initiation

Clinical update

Pharma and biotech

16 March 2023

Price

€2.11

Market cap

€119m

Net cash (€m) at end-December 2022

4.0

Shares in issue

56.3m

Free float

80%

Code

ORY

Primary exchange

Madrid Stock Exchange

Secondary exchange

N/A

Share price performance

Business description

Oryzon Genomics is a Spanish biotech focused on epigenetics. Iadademstat is being explored for acute leukaemias, small-cell lung cancer and neuroendocrine tumours. Vafidemstat, its central nervous system (CNS) asset, has completed several Phase IIa trials and a Phase IIb trial in borderline personality disorder is now the lead study, but Oryzon is rapidly expanding its CNS R&D pipeline.

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Oryzon Genomics is a research client of Edison Investment Research Limited

Oryzon Genomics has announced it has enrolled the first patient in its Phase Ib FRIDA study investigating iadademstat in combination with Astellas’ FDA-approved FLT3 inhibitor gilteritinib to treat FLT3+ relapsed/refractory (r/r) acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) patients. The FRIDA study is central to Oryzon’s overall strategy as management believes the second-line AML setting may represent a potentially quicker route to market for iadademstat, targeting an AML patient population with limited and sub-optimal treatment options. FRIDA will recruit up to 45 patients across 10–15 trial sites in the United States and, in our view, its initiation marks a significant clinical milestone for the company.

Year

end

Revenue
(€m)

PBT*
(€m)

EPS*
(€)

DPS
(€)

P/E
(x)

Yield
(%)

12/21

10.6

(7.2)

(0.09)

0.0

N/A

N/A

12/22

15.7

(6.6)

(0.07)

0.0

N/A

N/A

12/23e

17.3

(4.2)

(0.03)

0.0

N/A

N/A

12/24e

19.0

(10.0)

(0.14)

0.0

N/A

N/A

Note: *PBT and EPS are normalised, excluding amortisation of acquired intangibles, other income and exceptional items.

The FRIDA trial is an open-label, multi-centre study with the primary objective of assessing the safety and tolerability of the iadademstat and gilteritinib combination in r/r FLT3+ patients, and to determine the Recommended Phase 2 Dose (RP2D) for the drug combination. Key secondary outcomes from the study include early efficacy assessments to measure rates of complete remission and complete remission with partial haematological recovery (CR/CRh), duration of treatment response and levels of measurable residual disease (MRD). Approximately 50% of patients relapse after first-line AML treatment and 30% possess an FLT3 mutation, with gilteritinib monotherapy currently the standard of care. The median overall survival for gilteritinib treatment is 9.3 months in r/r FLT3+ patients and, in our view, combinational treatments such as iadademstat may provide scope for synergistic efficacy enhancements.

Iadademstat has already demonstrated an encouraging safety and efficacy profile in first-line AML patients, with positive data reported from the recently completed Phase II ALICE study. In our view, a potentially promising result from this trial was the observation that those evaluable AML patients (n = 3) possessing an FLT3 mutation (FLT3+) all responded to iadademstat treatment. However, we acknowledge that the current data only represent a small number of patients so there may be limitations in extrapolating from this finding.

While FRIDA represents one of Oryzon’s key strategic priorities, iadademstat is also being investigated in a Phase II study in collaboration with the Fox Chase Cancer Center for the treatment of high-grade neuroendocrine carcinomas and planning for a Phase Ib/II trial (STELLAR) in metastatic small-cell lung cancer is underway.

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