I would like to them to endorse everything more often. They did mention NASH even at Fireside chat, they just diluted and raised more money than they would need in near future if they only wanted to go ahead with oncology, they might not even needed to raise cash at the low ball price. NASH is a big money maker and they will be a phase 3 NASH company even if they need to drop Europe, theoretically the success rate for NASH is much higher than oncology so why drop it after that letter?
I think going forward they will be endorsing NASH but in the midst of negotiations with both agencies they might keep a low profile. This part below just turned up on their website, I don't recall it was there! Note they see themselves as a R&D company in hepatology also they mentioned both agency later on as we know the oncology is not trialed in the Europe.
Theratechnologies Inc. (“Theratechnologies”) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on thedevelopment and commercialization of innovative therapies. Our commercialized products and our research pipeline focus on specialized therapies addressing unmet medical needs in HIV, oncology and hepatology. Theratechnologies has begun development of the SORT1+ Technology™, a novel and targeted treatment platform in oncology based on new proprietary peptides targeting sortilin receptor (SORT1). The first peptide-drug conjugate (PDC) generatedfrom this platform, named TH1902, is under investigational evaluation in a Phase 1 clinical trial for the treatment of patients with recurrent advanced solid tumors (i.e. triple negative breast cancer, gynecological cancer, colorectal cancer, and pancreatic cancer) that have relapsed or are refractory to standard chemotherapy, surgery, radiation therapy, and for which no knowneffective therapies exist (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04706962).
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As a general policy, Theratechnologies will not provide an investigational drug product until there is sufficient clinical data available from its existing clinical trial(s) to identify anappropriate dose and to evaluate preliminary safety and efficacy information to make a risk/benefit analysis consistent with the establishment of an expanded access program. This is typically not expected to occur earlier than after completion of Phase 2 studies and afterconsultation with regulatory agencies. At such a time, Theratechnologies will disclose the criteria pursuant to which expanded access requests will be assessed. Given the early stage of the clinical development of TH1902, Theratechnologies’ investigational drug product is currently not available for expanded access.
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