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Future IBD treatments out of sync with patient needs, expert says


 

EXPERT ANALYSIS FROM 2015 ADVANCES IN IBD

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Potential new inflammatory bowel disease treatments


Adhesion molecule–based therapies
• PF-00547659 (Pfizer), an anti-MAdCam S1P1 agonist; an oral agent; for ulcerative colitis
• Ozanimod (Celgene); for ulcerative colitis; now in phase III
• Etrolizumab (Hoffmann-La Roche); for Crohn’s disease; now in phase III

Biologics for IL-12/23 pathways
MEDI2070 (MedImmune/Amgen), an anti-p19 antibody; targets IL-23 for Crohn’s disease

Agents for the JAK-STAT pathway
• Mongersen (Celgene), an oral SMAD7 antisense oligonucleotide; for Crohn’s disease; in phase III
• Tofacitinib (Pfizer)

Sources: Dr. Brian Feagan, University of Western Ontario; Dr. Bruce Sands, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Dr. Bill Sandborn, University of California, San Diego

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