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PTC Announces Data Showing That PTC124 Causes Statistically Significant Improvements In Chloride Channel Function In Cystic Fibrosis Patients




PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (PTC) announced that results from a randomized Phase 2a European study demonstrated that treatment with the investigational drug PTC124 caused statistically significant improvements in the chloride channel function of children with cystic fibrosis (CF) caused by a particular genetic mutation, called a nonsense mutation. Results from the study were presented today by Isabelle SermetGaudelus, M.D., Ph.D.


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