PLANEGG-MARTINSRIED, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--4SC AG (Frankfurt, Prime Standard: VSC), a drug discovery and development company focused on autoimmune and cancer indications, today announced positive preliminary results of a Phase IIa study in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) with its lead autoimmune compound vidofludimus, an oral inhibitor of interleukin-17 (IL-17) release. The exploratory, open-label, single-arm Phase IIa ENTRANCE study met its primary endpoint of significantly increasing the response rate in corticosteroid-dependent IBD patients to 88.5% versus an average placebo response across published benchmark clinical trials of approximately 20%.
