Spinal Cord Injury

XenoPort Announces Initiation of Clinical Trials

Published in Law and Health Weekly, January 19th, 2008

XenoPort, Inc. (Nasdaq:XNPT) announced that it has initiated separate Phase 2 clinical trials of XP19986 in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD, and in spinal cord injury patients with spasticity. In addition, XenoPort announced the initiation of the first clinical trial of XP21279, a drug candidate designed to treat Parkinson's disease.

Ronald W. Barrett, Ph.D., chief executive officer of XenoPort, stated, "We are pleased to report these advancements in our XP19986 and XP21279 clinical development programs. Given our earlier positive results with single doses of XP19986 in GERD patients, we believe this new GERD clinical trial will enable us to...

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Source: Law and Health Weekly (2008-01-19)

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