Trials & Filings

Portola Posts POC Results for Eliquis Antidote

Hopes to begin Phase III trials in 2014

By: Gil Roth

President, Pharma & Biopharma Outsourcing Association

Portola Pharmaceuticals has posted new interim findings from a Phase II proof-of-concept study of its investigational Factor Xa inhibitor antidote, Andexanet alfa, in healthy volunteers who received the Factor Xa inhibitor Eliquis (apixaban). Andexanet alfa was administered intravenously as a bolus followed by a continuous infusion for up to two hours. Data from this study showed a rapid and nearly complete reversal of the anticoagulation effect of Eliquis measured at two minutes following compl...

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