Daix (France), Long Island City (New York, United States), October 21, 2022 – Inventiva (Euronext Paris and Nasdaq: IVA), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of oral small molecule therapies for the treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and other diseases with significant unmet medical needs, today announced that a scientific abstract has been selected for poster presentation at the upcoming The Liver Meeting® 2022 hosted by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases on November 4-8, 2022 in Washington, DC.
The abstract evaluates the correlation between the response to lanifibranor therapy and adiponectin levels. Low adiponectin levels are known to be associated with NASH and with cardiovascular disease. Liver biomarkers and imaging assessments, as well as adiponectin serum levels measures, were conducted during Inventiva’s NATIVE Phase IIb clinical trial, in order to evaluate the relation between adiponectin changes and the improvement of a broad panel of markers of liver and cardiometabolic health in patients with NASH. The adiponectin levels at baseline were low in patients enrolled in the NATIVE clinical trial, and treatment with lanifibranor significantly increased adiponectin levels in contrast to placebo. This increase in adiponectin is correlated with improvements in glycemic control, insulin resistance, lipid profile, liver tests and systemic inflammation, as well as liver steatosis quantified by ultrasound-based imaging. These data further show that lanifibranor, in addition to its beneficial effect on liver histology, also improves markers of cardiometabolic health and increases adiponectin levels, and thus has the potential to decrease the risk for cardiovascular disease in patients with NASH.
The details of the presentation are as follows:
Abstract:
| Abstract title: | "Lanifibranor-induced improvement of liver and cardiometabolic markers of NASH is associated with an increase in adiponectin" |
| Poster number: | 2526 |
| Presentation type: | Poster presentation |
| Authors: | Michael P. Cooreman, Sven Francque, Philippe Huot-Marchand, Lucile Dzen, Martine Baudin, Jean-Louis Junien, Pierre Broqua, Manal F. Abdelmalek |
| Date: | November 5, 2022 – 8:30am-5:00pm (EST) |
Inventiva will also be present with a booth: we are inviting you to visit us from Friday 4th through Monday 7th, during exhibition hall opening hours at booth #548 located in the exhibition hall of the conference center.
About lanifibranor
Lanifibranor, Inventiva’s lead product candidate, is an orally-available small molecule that acts to induce anti-fibrotic, anti-inflammatory and beneficial vascular and metabolic changes in the body by activating all three peroxisome proliferator‑activated receptor (PPAR) isoforms, which are well‑characterized nuclear receptor proteins that regulate gene expression. Lanifibranor is a PPAR agonist that is designed to target all three PPAR isoforms in a moderately potent manner, with a well‑balanced activation of PPARα and PPARδ, and a partial activation of PPARγ. While there are other PPAR agonists that target only one or two PPAR isoforms for activation, lanifibranor is the only pan‑PPAR agonist in clinical development for the treatment of NASH. Inventiva believes that lanifibranor’s moderate and balanced pan‑PPAR binding profile contributes to the favorable tolerability profile that has been observed in clinical trials and pre‑clinical studies to date. The FDA has granted Breakthrough Therapy and Fast Track designation to lanifibranor for the treatment of NASH.
About Inventiva
Inventiva is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the research and development of oral small molecule therapies for the treatment of patients with NASH and other diseases with significant unmet medical need. The Company benefits from a strong expertise and experience in the domain of compounds targeting nuclear receptors, transcription factors and epigenetic modulation. Inventiva’s lead product candidate, lanifibranor, is currently in a pivotal Phase III clinical trial, NATiV3, for the treatment of adult patients with NASH, a common and progressive chronic liver disease for which there are currently no approved therapies.
The Company has established a strategic collaboration with AbbVie in the area of autoimmune diseases that resulted in the discovery of the drug candidate cedirogant (ABBV-157), an oral RORγ inverse agonist which is being evaluated in a Phase IIb clinical trial, led by AbbVie, in adult patients with moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis. Inventiva’s pipeline also includes odiparcil, a drug candidate for the treatment of adult mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) VI patients. As part of Inventiva’s decision to focus clinical efforts on the development of lanifibranor, it suspended clinical efforts relating to odiparcil and is reviewing available options with respect to its potential further development. Inventiva is in the process of selecting an oncology development candidate for its Hippo signaling pathway program.
The Company has a scientific team of approximately 80 people with deep expertise in the fields of biology, medicinal and computational chemistry, pharmacokinetics and pharmacology, and clinical development. It owns an extensive library of approximately 240,000 pharmacologically relevant molecules, approximately 60% of which are proprietary, as well as a wholly-owned research and development facility.
Inventiva is a public company listed on compartment C of the regulated market of Euronext Paris (ticker: IVA - ISIN: FR0013233012) and on the Nasdaq Global Market in the United States (ticker: IVA). www.inventivapharma.com.
Contacts
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