Date: 2012-11-08
Type of information:
phase:
Announcement: results
Company: Lophius Biosciences (Germany)
Product: T-Track® TB test
Action mechanism:
Disease: tuberculosis
Therapeutic area: Infectious diseases
Country: India
Trial details:
Latest
news: Lophius Biosciences, a leader in the field of novel T cell based diagnostic test systems, has reported about its first successfully concluded clinical Proof of Principle study with respect to detection of active tuberculosis (TB) using its novel T-Track® TB test which is based on Lophius Biosciences proprietary Reverse T Cell Technology (RT Technology).
The clinical Proof of Principle was concluded in India with a cohort of 44 patients. Results demonstrate that the T-Track® TB test was able to detect active TB in in 10 of 12 non-treated patients. Besides its high sensitivity and specificity the T-Track® TB test also demonstrated a remarkably short turnaround time of 2 days which compares favorably to currently used classical detection methods. In summary, these results imply that the T-Track® TB test could represent an innovative and fast detection approach for this area of strong medical need.
For further test development Lophius Biosciences has been awarded research funding of 140K€ under the scope of the ZIM-solo-program from the German government. This funding should help to broaden the scope of the T-Track® TB tests with respect to detection of latent TB and potential patient-monitoring of treated TB subjects. The company will present first results at Medica mid November 2012 in Düsseldorf.
