THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Nov. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: LXRX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering breakthrough treatments for human disease, announced today that Dr. Roy Fleischmann from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center will be presenting data from Lexicon's LX2931 Phase 2 proof-of-concept clinical trial at the annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. LX2931 is an orally-administered small molecule designed to inhibit sphingosine-1-phosphate lyase (S1P), an enzyme in a pathway known to be important in regulating the immune response.
Results from the Phase 2a study demonstrated a favorable safety profile at all doses tested and suggested that patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with 150 mg of LX2931 once daily showed improvement in the primary efficacy endpoint of the study, the percentage of patients achieving an American College of Rheumatology 20 (ACR20) response at week 12.
For more information on this program or to download a copy of the presentation, please visit www.lexpharma.com.
About Lexicon
Lexicon is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering breakthrough treatments for human disease. Lexicon currently has four drug programs in mid-stage development for diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome, carcinoid syndrome and rheumatoid arthritis, all of which were discovered by Lexicon's research team. Lexicon has used its proprietary gene knockout technology to identify more than 100 promising drug targets. Lexicon has focused drug discovery efforts on these biologically-validated targets to create its extensive pipeline of clinical and preclinical programs. For additional information about Lexicon and its programs, please visit www.lexpharma.com.
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