SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Receptos, Inc., announced today that their highly selective sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 1 (S1P1) agonist, RPC1063, has been administered to the first subject in a single-ascending and multiple-ascending dose design Phase 1 clinical safety study. The study is being conducted in healthy male and female volunteers at a single site in the United States under an Investigational New Drug (IND) application recently allowed by the FDA. Receptos is developing RPC1063 as a potential treatment for multiple sclerosis.
