Ipsen (Paris:IPN) (Euronext: FR0010259150; IPN), a global biopharmaceutical group, today announced that its partner Roche has disclosed results of the phase III T-emerge 3 study in patients with diabetes with taspoglutide, the first once weekly glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) analogue based on a human sequence. Taspoglutide originating from Ipsen's research is developed by Roche.
The results of T-emerge 3 showed that taspoglutide demonstrated superiority in HbA1c change versus placebo following 24 weeks of treatment. The study analysis included 326 patients, randomized into three arms (taspoglutide 10 mg once weekly, taspoglutide 20 mg once weekly and placebo).
In this study taspoglutide was generally well tolerated and the most frequently reported adverse events among taspoglutide treated patients were nausea and vomiting.
In addition to the already released T-emerge 1, T-emerge 2, T-emerge 4, T-emerge 5 and T-emerge 7 studies, data from T-emerge 3 will be submitted for presentation at upcoming international scientific meetings. A further two T-emerge Phase III trials exploring taspoglutide in patients with diabetes are ongoing.
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