Emyria expands clinical sites for EMD-RX5 Phase 3 trial
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26 September 2022
Emyria expands clinical sites for EMD-RX5 Phase 3 trial
HIGHLIGHTS
Emyria has now qualified 8 clinical trial sites across Australia to support the pivotal Phase 3
trial for EMD-RX5
EMD-RX5 is Emyria’s first Ultra-Pure cannabinoid treatment created with a proprietary
formulation that improves the delivery of CBD and supports global registration
opportunities where exceptional purity is a requirement
EMD-RX5 has multiple indication potential and is initially seeking registration with the TGA
as a Schedule 3, over-the-counter treatment for symptoms of psychological distress
Emyria’s Phase 3 clinical trial is now available to patients across Western Australia,
Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory
Emyria’s clinical service subsidiary - Emerald Clinics - will begin accepting expressions of
interest for these new sites from September 28th 2022 to support patient recruitment
Emyria Limited (ASX: EMD) (Emyria or the Company), a clinical stage biotech, is pleased to
announce it has qualified 8 sites across Australia to support the pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial
of EMD-RX5, its first Ultra-Pure cannabinoid treatment. Results from the Phase 3 trial are
expected to support an initial registration of EMD-RX5 as a Schedule 3, over-the-counter
treatment with Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).
“Qualified” sites have
successfully passed extensive
feasibility and suitability
screens with an independent
monitor. Qualified sites are
formally approved to
participate in core trial
activities such as patient
recruitment, treatment dosing
and clinical assessments. The
8 newly qualified sites join
previously activated sites
following ethics approval in
August (See ASX release 16
August 2022).
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States with
qualified trial sites
for EMD-RX5
Phase 3 trial
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Emyria’s Managing Director, Dr. Michael Winlo said: “We have had exceptional demand to
participate in our Phase 3 program from clinical sites across Australia. We take this as a
strong sign that there is high clinical interest in our unique Ultra-Pure CBD capsule and
strong patient need for new treatment options for our target indication - the symptoms of
psychological distress.
8 additional clinical trial sites are now poised to commence patient recruitment across
Australia, with our trial drug EMD-RX5 being readied for distribution over the coming weeks.
In parallel, we are advancing commercialisation discussions and look forward to providing
more updates on the registration of EMD-RX5 in future announcements.”
A further 4 sites have been identified for qualification if required. Emyria’s nationwide clinical
service subsidiary, Emerald Clinics, continues to support patient recruitment.
EMD-RX5 - a unique, Ultra-Pure CBD capsule
EMD-RX5 was developed to overcome many of the limitations with commonly available
cannabinoid medicines and has been clinically demonstrated to have excellent safety,
tolerability, bioavailability and low patient variability in a head-to-head comparison with the
only registered CBD medicine in the world - Epidyolex [1].
EMD-RX5 is a proprietary capsule formulation of Ultra-Pure CBD with the potential to address
multiple clinical indications and with the required purity to pursue registration opportunities
across multiple major global markets.
Target indication - Psychological distress:
Psychological distress describes a set of mental and physical symptoms such as anxiety, stress,
depression, sleep disturbance and gastrointestinal upset that, at any one time, can affect up
to 15% of the adult population [2].
Psychological distress has a higher incidence rate in rural patients [3] and patients with
chronic disease [4]. Overall the incidence of psychological distress is believed to be increasing.
There is currently no over-the-counter treatment for psychological distress.
This announcement has been approved and authorised for release by the CEO of Emyria Limited.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Dr. Michael Winlo
Managing Director
+61 (0) 8 6559 2800
mwinlo@emyria.com
Lexi O’Halloran
Investor Relations
+61 (0) 404 577 076
investors@emyria.com
Andrew Williams
Media Relations
+61 (0) 416 583 672
awilliams@emyria.com
Sufian Ahmad
Corporate Advisor
+61 (0) 412 316 162
info@62capital.com.au
REFERENCES:
[1]
[2]
[3]
See ASX release 25 May 2022
National Study of Mental Health and Wellbeing 2020-21 series, Australian Bureau of Statistics
Kilkkinen et al. Prevalence of psychological distress, anxiety and depression in rural communities in
Australia. Aust J Rural Health. 2007 Apr;15(2):114-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1584.2007.00863.x.
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Key Phase 3 information:
Study design, product and participant details:
A multi-site, parallel-arm, randomised, double blind, placebo-controlled study to
investigate the effect of EMD-RX5 on symptoms of psychological distress in adults with
chronic pain.
300 participants aged 18-70 with symptoms of stress and a background of chronic pain will be
randomised to one month of treatment with either 50mg EMD-RX5, 150mg EMD-RX5 or
matching placebo.
Primary endpoint:
To determine the effect of EMD-RX5 treatment on symptoms of psychological distress in
participants with chronic pain through change in self-reported DASS-21 score from baseline to
Week 4.
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UPCOMING
DRUG DEVELOPMENT MILESTONES
CLINICAL PROGRAMS
Ultra-pure cannabinoid delivery platform
EMD-RX5
“direct-to-consumer”
program
EMD-RX7
“prescription medicine”
program
PRE-CLINICAL PROGRAM
MDMA-like analogues
MDMA-like
drug development
Formulation
optimisation
Formulation
optimisation
Screening results for first
85 compounds
Phase 1
Phase 1
First patent family filed
Ethics submitted
for Phase 3
Pre-IND (FDA)
Batch 3 sent
Phase 3
commencement
Pivotal trials
Batch 3 screening results
Regulatory
submission
Create and screen
additional batches
Commercial
strategy Australia
US-focussed preclinical
program
Commercial
strategy Europe
Metabolic studies
Commercial
strategy USA
Preclinical assays
(multiple animal models)
Human cell line assays
Lead selection
Phase 1 trials
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ABOUT EMYRIA | emyria.com
Emyria Limited is a clinical drug development and care delivery company focused on
accelerating drug development and improving patient outcomes via:
●
Drug Development: Emyria has developed an Ultra-Pure cannabinoid platform that
can support the registration of multiple proprietary dose forms. Emyria’s first dose
form, EMD-RX5 is in Phase 3 trials
●
New Drug Discovery: Inspired by MDMA, Emyria is developing one of the world’s
largest libraries of MDMA-like compounds with partner, the University of Western
Australia.
●
Proprietary Real-World Data (RWD): Emyria gathers ethically-sourced data with
patients cared for at Emyria’s own specialist clinical service (Emerald Clinics). Emyria
RWD can help support drug development and care model improvement.
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