Enobia Pharma Presents PreClinical Data Showing ENB-0040 Significantly Improved Survival and Healed Skeletal Manifestations of Severe Hypophosphatas...( MONTREAL Sept. 15 /- Enobia Pharm...)

MONTREAL, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Enobia Pharma, an emerging biotech company focused on developing novel therapeutics for serious bone disorders, presented pre-clinical data demonstrating that its enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) for hypophosphatasia appears to heal bones that have already been severely weakened by the disease. Earlier pre-clinical data showed that ERT with Enobia's product ENB-0040, significantly increases survival and prevents bone hypomineralization associated with hypophosphatasia, a rare genetic bone disease.

Dr. Isabelle Lemire presented the positive results from several pre-clinical studies of ENB-0040 at the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research's 30th Annual Meeting in Montreal, Quebec on September 13th. Results of efficacy, safety and toxicology pre-clinical studies supported the initiation of clinical trials, announced last month.

"We are extremely pleased to see evidence that enzyme replacement therapy with ENB-0040 may help repair skeletal damage caused by hypophosphatasia, as well as prevent the onset of dangerous bone hypomineralization," said Dr. Lemire, Associate Director of Non Clinical Studies, Enobia Pharma. "We look forward to advancing our clinical studies and confirming these results in patients with this deadly disease who currently have no approved treatment options."

The treatment data were not available at the time of the original publication of Enobia's pre-clinical studies in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research [June 2008:23:777-787]. In these studies, subcutaneous administration of ENB-0040 was shown to significantly improve survival and prevent skeletal and dental manifestations of the disease.

Doctors at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg dosed the first patient in Enobia's clinical program investigating ERT with ENB-0040 as a treatment of this rare and often crippling genetic bone disorder in August.

Dr. Thomas Loisel, Associate Director of Process Development
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