Acer Therapeutics' (ACER:NASDAQ) therapeutic for urea cycle disorders is expected to get U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval in June 2022, reported ROTH Capital Partners analyst Jonathan Aschoff in a May 17th research note. Additional potential stock-moving events are anticipated this year as well, related to two other drug candidates, a clinical trial launch, and a data readout.
"The rest of the year will be eventful for Acer, as we expect to see important validation for ACER-001 and ACER-801," wrote Aschoff.
Acer is developing therapies for patients with serious, rare, and life-threatening diseases. ACER-001, or sodium phenylbutyrate, is the biopharma's therapeutic for urea cycle disorders. Patients with such an inherited disorder lack one of the six essential enzymes responsible for removing ammonia, a highly toxic substance, from the bloodstream.
ACER-001 has some advantages over the two approved competing drugs, and thus, should easily capture market share, Aschoff pointed out. Sodium phenylbutyrate has a terrible taste, which ACER-001 masks, making it a more tolerable option than Buphenyl, the same agent but without taste improvement. Also, ACER-001 will be much more affordable than Ravicti, or glycerol phenylbutyrate.
The next possible catalyst for Acer, expected later in Q2/22, is the commencement of its DISCOVER Phase 3 trial, evaluating Edsivo (celiprolol) in vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, for which no therapies currently exist, noted Aschoff. After enrollment is done, interim data are anticipated at the two-year mark followed by trial completion one and a half years later.
Finally, in H2/22, Acer's stock could benefit from the data release from the Phase 2a trial of the company's ACER-801 (osanetant) for hot flashes in menopausal women.
"We look forward to results in H2/22 and thus to Acer potentially broadening its clinical pipeline with another product candidate having achieved clinical proof of concept," Aschoff wrote.
ROTH Capital Partners has a Buy rating and a $10 per share target price on Acer, the current share price of which is around $2.06.
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