“Today’s announcement marks an important milestone for NewAmsterdam, the HeFH community, and CVD more broadly,” said Michael Davidson, M.D., Chief Executive Officer of NewAmsterdam. “Despite the widespread availability of lipid lowering therapies, CVD-related deaths have risen and patients remain above LDL-C targets. Patients and their doctors need additional options. We are very excited about the results from our BROOKLYN trial and believe they support obicetrapib’s potential to significantly reduce LDL-C in a challenging patient population, over a duration of one year. Adverse events and discontinuations due to side effects were similar to placebo, consistent with what was observed in Phase 2 studies. In the safety population, there was also no increase in blood pressure, nor any difference from placebo in liver enzymes, hs-CRP, or renal function. We look forward to building on these results with topline data from BROADWAY expected in the fourth quarter of 2024, and topline data from TANDEM expected in the first quarter of 2025.”
“The data announced today are another indication of obicetrapib’s potential to significantly reduce LDL-C in HeFH patients, a population already on multiple lipid-lowering therapies. I am incredibly encouraged by these results, which suggest that obicetrapib, if approved, has the potential to be a new oral option for a difficult-to-treat patient population and am excited to be a partner with the NewAmsterdam team on the remainder of the obicetrapib pivotal program,” said Stephen Nicholls, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., Director, Monash Victorian Heart Institute and Professor of Cardiology, Monash University.
“HeFH affects 1 in 250 people worldwide and leads to increased risk of major adverse cardiovascular events, including stroke, myocardial infarction, or death, in the prime of life because of life-long burden of high LDL-C. Many individuals living with HeFH are unable to attain guideline-recommended LDL-C levels, despite currently available treatment options,” said Katherine Wilemon, Founder and CEO of the Family Heart Foundation. “Familial hypercholesterolemia often requires multiple therapies to achieve safer levels of LDL cholesterol. We are highly encouraged with these results and the potential to have another efficacious oral option.”
NewAmsterdam plans to present full results from BROOKLYN at an upcoming medical conference and to publish the data in a major medical journal.
Design of the Pivotal Phase 3 BROOKLYN Clinical Trial
The 52-week, global, pivotal, Phase 3, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled multicenter study evaluated the efficacy and safety of 10 mg obicetrapib compared to placebo as an adjunct to maximally tolerated lipid-lowering therapies in patients with HeFH whose LDL-C is not adequately controlled. The study was conducted at sites in North America, Europe and Africa. A total of 354 patients were randomized 2:1 to receive 10 mg obicetrapib or placebo dosed as a once-daily oral treatment, with or without food. The mean baseline LDL-C for enrolled patients in the obicetrapib arm was 123 mg/dL despite high intensity statin use reported by approximately 79% of patients during screening. Females comprised approximately 53% of the study population and the median age of participants at baseline was 57 years.
The primary endpoint was percent change from baseline in LDL-C of obicetrapib 10 mg compared to placebo after 84 days. Secondary endpoints also included percent changes from baseline of obicetrapib 10 mg compared to placebo after 84 days in HDL-C, non- HDL-C, ApoB, and Lp(a). The trial also evaluated the safety and tolerability profile of obicetrapib.
Conference Call and Webcast Information
NewAmsterdam will host a live webcast and conference call to review the topline results from BROOKLYN at 8:30 a.m. ET today. To access the live webcast, participants may register here. The live webcast will be available under the “Events” section of the Investor Relations page of the NewAmsterdam website at ir.newamsterdampharma.com.