Entera Bio Reports Financial Results for the Year Ended December 31, 2021
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Entera Bio Reports Financial Results for the Year Ended December 31, 2021

Entera Bio Ltd.
Entera Bio Ltd.

— EB613 expected to commence pivotal Phase 3 Osteoporosis trial in 2022 —
— New EB612 formulation for Hypoparathyroidism trial planned in 2022 —
— Oral delivery technology platform advances with more indications, inventions, patents, and collaborations —
— Company to host conference call and webcast today at 8:30 AM EST —

BOSTON and JERUSALEM, March 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Entera Bio Ltd. (NASDAQ: ENTX), a leader in the development of orally delivered large molecule therapeutics, today announced financial and operating results for the year ended December 31, 2021, and provided an update on its clinical and pre-clinical programs.

2021 and Recent Highlights

  • Successful End of Phase 2 Meeting with FDA: Entera met with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), presented Phase 2 results, and reviewed the development plan of EB613 including the design of a Phase 3 registration trial expected to commence in 2022. Entera believes that the meeting was positive and confirmed the use of bone mineral density (BMD) as the primary endpoint. The study design is being adjusted to incorporate FDA’s input and we intend to maintain close communication with the FDA to support our EB613 Osteoporosis program.

  • Osteoporosis Phase 2 study meets endpoints: Entera effectively executed the clinical development of EB613 for osteoporosis, as the Company’s lead drug candidate met its Phase 2 primary and key secondary endpoints. EB613 significantly increased lumbar spine BMD, in addition to the femoral neck, and total hip BMD when compared to placebo after six months of treatment. EB613 demonstrated a safety profile consistent with Forteo®, a drug that has generated peak worldwide sales of $1.9 billion. Study results were shared with the osteoporosis community in two presentations including being selected for a prestigious Late Breaking Oral Presentation at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) Annual Meeting in October 2021.

  • Entera engaged Torreya Capital, LLC, a global investment bank, to serve as their exclusive financial advisor for Entera’s business development activities to secure non-dilutive funding through strategic alliances for our lead asset, EB613 for Osteoporosis.

  • EB612 Hypoparathyroidism Successful Phase 2a Data Published, Next Trial Expected to Commence in 2022: Entera’s Phase 2a clinical results from its EB612 program, an oral parathyroid hormone (PTH) for the treatment of hypoparathyroidism, were published in February 2021 in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. The trial achieved its primary and secondary endpoints with published data showing that when added to the standard of care, EB612 led to a statistically significant decrease in supplemental calcium usage. EB612 has the potential to have a major impact on compliance, adherence, therapeutic impact, and quality of life for patients living with Hypoparathyroidism, a rare condition in which a person produces an abnormally low level of PTH. It also causes a heavy disease burden due to its impact on a patient’s cardiovascular, neurologic, renal, and skeletal systems. Entera is currently working on an improved formulation of EB612 and is designing its next clinical trial, which it expects to commence in 2022. EB612 has Orphan Drug status with both the FDA and the European Medicines Agency for Hypoparathyroidism.

  • Advanced Platform Technology: As a leader in the oral delivery of large proteins, Entera further advanced its platform technology in 2021 by identifying potential new treatment indications, filing new patents, and receiving a foundational patent in the European Union, representing new intellectual property with an extended patent life. Entera’s platform technology continues to gain recognition for its applications in transforming injectable biologics into oral pills. A study in collaboration with researchers at the University of East Anglia in the UK, describing the platform’s dual mechanism of action, was published in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Pharmaceutics: X in October 2021. Additionally, new data were announced1 suggesting Entera’s platform orally delivers human growth hormone, and these data were shared in a poster presentation at the 31st Annual European Pharma Congress in London in 2021.

  • Biopharma Collaborations Continue: While Entera continues its long-term collaboration with Amgen, the Company entered additional new material transfer agreements in 2021 with other companies in the biopharma industry. Working closely with the new collaborators, Entera has been generating proof of principle data on its platform’s applications to large molecules, which may lead to additional new deals.