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HemaQuest Pharmaceuticals Completes Patient Enrollment in Phase 2 Clinical Study of HQK-1001 in Patients With Sickle Cell Disease
Date:9/12/2011

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- HemaQuest Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (HemaQuest), a biotechnology company focused on developing small molecule therapeutics to treat hemoglobin disorders, announced today that it has completed enrollment in a randomized multi-dose Phase 2 study of HQK-1001 in patients with sickle cell disease. The study, initiated in April of this year, enrolled a total of 52 patients in clinical sites in the US, Canada, Jamaica, Egypt and Lebanon, and is designed to evaluate the safety and tolerability of HQK-1001. Secondary objectives include the effect on fetal hemoglobin and sickle cell crises. HemaQuest expects interim results from the study in late 2011 and final results in the first quarter of 2012.

"To complete enrollment in just five months is a significant accomplishment and a credit to everyone involved in the trial," said HemaQuest Chief Medical Officer Richard G. Ghalie, MD. "We believe that the rapid enrollment demonstrates the need for, as well as the excitement among physicians treating sickle cell disease worldwide about, a potential new therapy for this devastating disease which affects underserved populations around the world."

ABOUT HQK-1001 HQK-1001 belongs to a class of compounds originally discovered at Boston University School of Medicine. These compounds, designated as Short Chain Fatty Acid Derivatives (SCFADs), have been shown to stimulate fetal hemoglobin expression and red blood cell production in the laboratory and in small clinical trials in patients with hemoglobin disorders, including sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia.  Increased fetal hemoglobin production in red blood cells has been shown to reduce the frequency of pain crises and hospitalizations of patients with sickle cell disease.  HQK-1001 is an orally administered SCFAD, which has shown an excellent safety profile and biologic effects on fetal hemoglobin induction and red blood cell production in the laboratory, relevan
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