Type A Post-Action Meeting Minutes Received
BURLINGTON, Mass., Oct. 18, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- scPharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: SCPH), a pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products that have the potential to optimize the delivery of infused therapies, advance patient care and reduce healthcare costs, today announced that, on October 16, 2018, it received minutes from the Type A Post-Action Meeting held on September 24, 2018 between the Company and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to discuss the Company’s New Drug Application (NDA) for FUROSCIX®, scPharmaceuticals’ lead program for the treatment of edema in patients with heart failure. The meeting was scheduled to allow scPharmaceuticals to present new information that the Company believes important in addressing certain issues raised by the FDA in the Complete Response Letter (CRL) received on June 13, 2018, regarding FUROSCIX.
As an outcome of the meeting, the FDA has asked the Company to conduct additional human factors studies and a dose delivery validation study with the recently modified FUROSCIX Infusor. The Company intends to submit requests for Type C meetings with the FDA to determine study protocols. The FDA has not requested any additional clinical trials.
The FDA confirmed the appropriate populations for FUROSCIX are patients with worsening NYHA Class II and III heart failure who display reduced responsiveness to oral diuretics and do not require hospitalization. The FDA has recommended that the label for FUROSCIX, if approved, should state that the FUROSCIX Infusor should not be used as a substitute for IV diuretics for patients who require hospitalization or have been recently discharged.
“We have had productive dialogue with the FDA since receiving the CRL in June and have further clarity following receipt of the minutes from our Type A Post-Action Meeting,” said John Tucker, president and chief executive officer of scPharmaceuticals. “We look forward to working with the FDA to establish the human factors and dose delivery validation protocols and NDA resubmission plan. We remain in a strong financial position with expected year-end cash of $80-85 Million, sufficient to complete the human factors and dose delivery validation studies required to re-file FUROSCIX by the end of 2019 and continue with future product and device development.”
About FUROSCIX
FUROSCIX is a proprietary furosemide solution formulated to a neutral pH to allow for subcutaneous infusion via the patented Infusor, a wearable, pre-programed drug delivery system that is applied to the abdomen for subcutaneous drug administration. FUROSCIX is being developed for treatment of edema, or fluid overload, in patients with heart failure. FUROSCIX has the potential to provide an outpatient alternative for the treatment of worsening heart failure due to edema.
About scPharmaceuticals
scPharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products that reduce healthcare costs and improve health outcomes. The Company develops products for the subcutaneous, self-administration of IV-strength treatments in heart failure and infectious disease. scPharmaceuticals is headquartered in Burlington, MA. For more information, please visit scPharmaceuticals.com.
Forward-Looking Statement
This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the Company’s plans to meet with the FDA to discuss validation study protocols; the Company’s completion of human factors and dose delivery validation studies; the Company’s plans to resubmit its NDA for FUROSCIX; the potential timing and advancement of our ongoing or planned clinical trials and investigator-sponsored studies; the announcement of data from these trials and studies; and the Company’s financial condition and cash runway. Any forward-looking statements in this press release are based on management’s current expectations of future events and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially and adversely from those set forth in or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the Company conducting human factors studies or a dose delivery validation study, the ability of our device to appropriately deliver therapy, the receipt of regulatory approval for FUROSCIX or any other product candidates or, if approved, successfully commercialize such products, the risk of cessation or delay of any of the ongoing or planned clinical trials and/or our development of our product candidates, and the risk that the results of previously conducted studies will not be repeated or observed in ongoing or future studies involving our product candidates. For a discussion of other risks and uncertainties, and other important factors, any of which could cause our actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see the section entitled “Risk Factors” in the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as discussions of potential risks, uncertainties and other important factors in the Company’s subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All information in this press release is as of the date of the release, and the Company undertakes no duty to update this information unless required by law.
Contacts:
Troy Ignelzi, scPharmaceuticals Inc.
781-301-7216
tignelzi@scpharma.com
Christopher F. Brinzey, Westwicke Partners
339-970-2843
chris.brinzey@westwicke.com