Mithra Announces an Update on PeriNesta®
Liege, Belgium, 21 September 2021 –17:50 CEST – Mithra (Euronext Brussels: MITRA), a company dedicated to Women’s Health, today announces an update on its Research & Development strategy regarding the PeriNesta® product candidate.
At inception, the PeriNesta® product candidate was intended to specifically target relief of hot flushes, and/or vasomotor symptoms (VMS), while providing effective contraception for women who are starting to exit the reproductive stage and are transitioning into postmenopause, a period called perimenopause. To do so, Mithra intended to conduct a safety study with a comparable formulation to E4 15 mg/DRSP 3 mg in women aged around 50 years of age affected by VMS.
This specific period of women's lives remains completely unexplored. To date, there are no registered products to meet the needs of perimenopausal women. Yet, the needs associated with this period are real. The R&D development of such a product candidate therefore remains quite challenging, in particular from a regulatory perspective and feedback from agencies has convinced us to try and use one of our products for contraception and menopause in order to target this market.
Our absolute priority is to further explore all the potentialities of estetrol in menopause within the Donesta® program, and to continue our investigations to develop innovative alternatives that will meet the unmet needs of women at every stage of their lives as well as improve, safely, their quality of life.