Inhibikase Therapeutics issues letter to shareholders, provides update

Inhibikase Therapeutics issued a Letter to Shareholders. “Despite the market volatility experienced this year, we approach the end of the year with our stock price up 68% since its low point of $0.81 on October 9. We have made great strides across our multi-therapeutic pipeline as the year comes to a close. In neurodegeneration, we continue to advance our 201 trial evaluating risvodetinib in untreated Parkinson’s disease and began actively enrolling patients in the second quarter. As of today, all 32 sites are consenting, screening and enrolling patients with 35 participants enrolled, 50 potential participants scheduling or reviewing informed consent forms and 11 potential participants undergoing medical evaluations necessary to be considered for enrollment. Thus far, only three mild treatment-related adverse events have been reported across all enrolled patients. Based on the current pace of enrollment, we expect to report results from this trial in the second half of 2024… Our cancer therapeutics program has also made significant progress throughout 2023. IkT-001Pro, our prodrug of imatinib, was evaluated in 66 healthy subjects, ages 18 to 55, to measure bioequivalence to 400 mg or 600 mg imatinib mesylate. With these studies complete, we will have a pre-NDA teleconference with the FDA in early 2024 to discuss the requirements of approval of IkT-001Pro for up to nine cancer indications. Recently, we requested to amend our Orphan Drug Designation for imatinib delivered by IkT-001Pro by adding eight additional indications. We are also evaluating the market potential of IkT-001Pro in non-oncology indications to which imatinib has already been shown to have meaningful benefit. We look forward to providing updates on this progress in the first half of 2024. Across our therapeutic pipeline, we have developed technologies that will advance clinical development and may augment commercial success. For risvodetinib, a commercial tablet formulation was developed that doubles drug exposure at the same dose. We believe this formulation significantly improves oral drug absorption. For IkT-001Pro, the prodrug has shown early signals of safety improvements relative to imatinib mesylate, but more work will be required before we know the scope of these safety improvement across a range of patients. 2023 was a year of growth: growth of our clinical and chemistry teams as well as rapid advancement of our clinical programs. We believe 2024 will be the year of transformation.”