Immupharma reports success of partner's latest Lupus drug trial

Drug development firm ImmuPharma said Monday that its key scientific collaboration partner and the inventor of ImmuPharma's lead compound, Lupuzor, has confirmed the effectiveness of a product known as Lupuzor peptide P140.

Partner CNRS released a statement saying that in a clinical trial involving 149 patients suffering with the Lupus, an autoimmune disease, the peptide was well tolerated by patients and led to a regression of the disease.

It said: "Under the CNRS patent, ImmuPharma-France, which funded the trial, has an exclusive licence to use the peptide. Now the final phase of clinical tests should soon confirm these results and contribute to the development of a drug without the side effects of existing treatments, which use cortico-steroids and immuno-suppressants."

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