Featured key opinion leaders will include Prof. Dr. Marcus Maurer (Professor of Dermatology and Allergology, Institute of Allergology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany), Christopher Sayed, MD (Prof. of Dermatology, University of North Carolina, Medical School; and Secretary of the HS Foundation) and Prof. Dr. Jörg Köhl (Director of the Institute for Systemic Inflammation Research, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany). The meeting will take place on June 5, from 12:00 PM EDT / 6:00 PM CEST to 2:00 PM EDT / 8:00 PM CEST.
To participate in the virtual R&D event, participants may pre-register to receive a dedicated link and dial-in details to access the meeting.
InflaRx will also participate in the Capital One Securities 1st Annual Biotech/Biopharma Disrupters Event, as a panelist on a panel, titled “New Potential Dermatology Treatments for Psoriasis, Urticaria, and Alopecia” on May 14, 2024, at 2:30 PM EDT / 8:30 PM CEST.
In March 2024, InflaRx announced it had chosen two initial immuno-dermatology indications it intends to pursue with INF904 and that it plans to initiate a Phase IIa “basket study”. This open-label, 4-week, multi-dose trial enrolling CSU and HS patients is expected to begin by the end of 2024 and to assess safety, as well as PK and PD parameters. InflaRx anticipates releasing data from this Phase IIa study in 2025. Similarly, the company expects to initiate a Phase IIb study in 2025 as well. InflaRx is currently conducting additional pre-clinical studies, including chronic toxicology studies, to enable longer-term dosing of INF904.
In January 2024, InflaRx reported results from the MAD part of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase I trial in healthy volunteers to assess the safety, tolerability and PK / PD properties of its orally administered, low molecular weight C5aR inhibitor, INF904. The safety analysis of INF904 in the Phase I study demonstrated that it was well tolerated in participants over the entire dose range and resulted in no safety signals of concern. There were no serious or severe adverse events observed at any dosing level. Both the single ascending dose and the MAD part of the study showed favorable PK and PD profiles, including achieving the desired blocking activity (>90%) of C5a-induced neutrophil activation in an ex vivo challenge assay using physiological and disease-relevant levels of C5a.
InflaRx is conducting a multi-national, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pivotal Phase III study of vilobelimab for the treatment of ulcerative PG, a rare, chronic inflammatory form of neutrophilic dermatosis characterized by accumulation of neutrophils in the affected skin areas. The trial has two arms: (1) vilobelimab plus a low dose of corticosteroids and (2) placebo plus the same low dose of corticosteroids. The primary endpoint of the study is complete closure of the target ulcer at any time up to 26 weeks after initiation of treatment.
In April, 2023, the FDA issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for GOHIBIC (vilobelimab) for the treatment of COVID-19 in hospitalized adults when initiated within 48 hours of receiving invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). In January 2024, InflaRx announced the launch of The InflaRx Commitment Program, pursuant to which the cost of GOHIBIC (vilobelimab) will be refunded for up to six (6) administered inpatient doses (the full treatment course) to institutions that meet the eligibility requirements*, for patients who were administered GOHIBIC (vilobelimab) in line with its EUA and who died due to COVID-19 in the intensive care unit.
