Immunic (NASDAQ:IMUX) stock is plummeting on Friday after the company reported a high placebo rate in a Phase 1b clinical trial. This trial is currently ongoing, testing the effectiveness of IMU-935 in patients with moderate-to-severe psoriasis. The treatment is being compared with a placebo and the study is blind.
The problem affecting IMUX stock is Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI) reductions in the trial. While Immunic did see its expected reduction from IMU-935, it also unexpectedly saw a similar reduction in the placebo group.
Immunic President and CEO Daniel Vitt, Ph.D., said the following about the clinical trial data:
“Although we did not see the desired activity signal over placebo in this group-level interim analysis, we retain a high degree of conviction on IMU-935’s potential promise in psoriasis and beyond […] We believe IMU-935 holds the potential to provide a safe, efficacious and meaningful treatment option to patients with psoriasis.”
IMUX Stock Shareholders Are Shaken
The effects of today’s data on investors in IMUX stock are easy to see. Heavy trading is taking place as investors sell off shares. As of this writing, more than 11 million shares have changed hands. That’s a massive jump from the daily average trading volume of 2.5 million shares.
To go along with that, shares of IMUX stock are down 76.5% as of Friday morning.
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