Praxis Precision Medicines, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRAX) enjoyed healthy gains Wednesday. The Boston-based, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company translating genetic insights into the development of therapies for central nervous system (CNS) disorders characterized by neuronal excitation-inhibition imbalance, today announced that that it will present preclinical and clinical data from three of its epilepsy programs at the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) 15th European Epilepsy Congress (EEC), being held from September 7 to 11, in Rome.
“We are pleased to highlight the continued progress across our portfolio of epilepsy assets, building on the strong evidence we have already generated in the elsunersen EMBRAVE study and the relutrigine EMBOLD study,” said Steven Petrou, chief scientific officer and co-founder of Praxis. “We are currently enrolling registrational trials for elsunersen and relutrigine, and look forward to initiating our ENERGY program with PRAX-628 this year.”
Relutrigine is a first-in-class small molecule in development for the treatment of developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) as a preferential inhibitor of persistent sodium current, shown to be a key driver of seizure symptoms in severe DEEs. Relutrigine’s mechanism of precision sodium channel (NaV) modulation is consistent with superior selectivity for disease-state NaV channel hyperexcitability.
PRAX shares grabbed $1.43, or 2.6%, to $56.81.
