Exhibit 99.1
Sage Therapeutics Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021 Financial Results and Highlights Pipeline and Business Progress
Rolling NDA submission for zuranolone in MDD expected to begin in early 2022 and planned to be completed in the second half of 2022 now supported by data from six positive clinical studies
An associated NDA submission in PPD expected in 2023; Fast Track designation received for zuranolone in PPD
Progressing seven ongoing and planned studies across neurology and neuropsychiatry franchises in 2022
Ended 2021 with cash balance of $1.7 billion; anticipate ending 2022 with a cash balance of approximately $1.3 billion
Cash and cash equivalents, ongoing collaboration funding, and potential revenue, will support operations into 2025
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Feb. 24, 2022 – Sage Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SAGE), a biopharmaceutical company fearlessly leading the way to create a world with better brain health, today reported business highlights and financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2021.
“2021 was a data rich year marked by important advancements in multiple disease areas across all of our brain health franchises,” said Barry Greene, chief executive officer at Sage Therapeutics. “I’m excited to build on this foundation, especially with the initiation of the rolling NDA submission for zuranolone in MDD planned for early this year. We believe the entirety of the development program to date supports zuranolone’s potential to address substantial unmet needs in major depressive disorder and postpartum depression and to be a differentiated treatment option for people with these brain health disorders.”
Key 2021 Highlights
Positive topline data from the WATERFALL and SHORELINE Studies announced in 2021 and multiple data presentations supporting zuranolone efficacy and safety: Along with collaborator Biogen, Sage announced positive topline data from the WATERFALL and SHORELINE Studies in 2021. The Companies also presented multiple datasets from the LANDSCAPE and NEST clinical development programs that support the potential efficacy and safety of zuranolone for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD) and postpartum depression (PPD), respectively.
| • | | Positive results were shared from the WATERFALL Study, a Phase 3 placebo-controlled trial that evaluated the efficacy and safety of zuranolone 50 mg in adults 18 to 64 years of age with MDD. |
| • | | Positive results from the open-label SHORELINE Study in MDD showed the majority of people who responded to an initial zuranolone 50 mg treatment course received only one treatment and 80% received only 1 or 2 treatment courses during their time in this year-long study. |
| • | | Shionogi presented positive results from a Phase 2 study of zuranolone in MDD in Japan. |
| • | | In clinical trials, zuranolone has consistently demonstrated rapid and sustained improvements in depressive symptoms, with rapid onset of significant effect as early as Day 3. Additionally, zuranolone has demonstrated a consistent and well-tolerated safety profile across the totality of clinical data to date. There were no signals for increased suicidal ideation/behavior as measured by the C-SSRS in the program and no evidence of withdrawal symptoms after discontinuation of zuranolone as assessed by the PWC-20 across the program. |
Including the CORAL Study, zuranolone now has six positive clinical studies: As recently announced, results from the Phase 3 CORAL Study in people with MDD met the trial objectives, demonstrating a rapid and statistically significant reduction in depressive symptoms in the zuranolone co-initiated with standard antidepressant arm compared to the standard antidepressant co-initiated with
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