AstraZeneca announced that its collaboration partner AtheroGenics, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGIX) revealed first results from the ARISE (Aggressive Reduction of Inflammation Stops Events) phase III clinical outcomes trial which studied AGI-1067, an investigational anti-atherosclerotic agent with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects, in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD).
The ARISE trial did not meet its primary endpoint of a statistically significant relative risk reduction in a composite cardiovascular endpoint of CV death, resuscitated cardiac arrest, non-fatal myocardial infarction, non-fatal stroke, use of coronary revascularisation and for angina pectoris with objective evidence of ischemia.
AstraZeneca and AtheroGenics will now work together to fully analyse the full data set for AGI-1067, including these first results. After completion of the final analysis, under the terms of the licence and collaboration agreement AstraZeneca has a 45-day period in which to decide whether or not to continue with the collaboration.