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Updated · Investor's Business Daily · Aug 12
Definium Shares Jump After 2nd Phase 3 LSD Anxiety Study Beats 4-Point Bar
Updated
Updated · Investor's Business Daily · Aug 12

Definium Shares Jump After 2nd Phase 3 LSD Anxiety Study Beats 4-Point Bar

3 articles · Updated · Investor's Business Daily · Aug 12

Summary

  • Definium Therapeutics unveiled a second positive Phase 3 readout for its LSD-based anxiety drug, sending the biotech stock higher on Thursday.
  • GAD patients improved by 5.4 points versus placebo on the 56-point Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale, topping the roughly 4-point benefit investors had been looking for.
  • The result reinforces earlier late-stage data for DT120, where a single 100-microgram dose significantly reduced generalized anxiety disorder symptoms and the effect lasted 12 weeks.
  • With two positive Phase 3 studies now in hand, the company strengthens its case to advance the psychedelic therapy toward potential regulatory filing and commercialization.

Insights

With no new anxiety drugs approved since 2007, will this controversial one-dose treatment finally disrupt the massive SSRI market?
Since patients usually know they took a psychedelic, how much of this anxiety breakthrough is just an amplified placebo effect?
Could a single dose of LSD permanently rewire an anxious brain, or does the relief fade after the 12-week mark?