Pharmaceutical Business review

Victory Pharma to test nausea drug

The MGX-006 program is being supported via a co-development agreement between Victory and its technology partner signed in August of 2006.

“Many patients who experience pain also experience nausea due to the disease state itself or the treatments for it. We believe that MGX-006 could provide a significant improvement to the treatment of nausea and vomiting and substantially improve compliance to benefit patients,” said Dave Gonyer, vice president of Commercial Development for Victory Pharma.

The anti-nausea market remains an area of unmet medical need with expanding market potential. Many anti-emetics are used concomitantly with pain products, and are often prescribed by Victory’s target audiences for its current product portfolio. MGX-006 is targeted to enter pivotal trials in 2007 in conjunction with a leading clinical research organization.