Thank you for your evaluation.
That's right, I think Frequency Therapeutics wants to run straight to the market with its current specifications.
Therefore, I hope the Phase2a results are effective in the deeper low frequency range with multiple injections.
If this is demonstrated, I think it will have a great effect, for example, repeating a set of four injections at intervals of several months.
If the therapeutic effect reaches up to,it's the original goal,3500Hz
more patients will expect the effect, and more patients will need to inject that many times, so the unit price of the drug will be able to be set at a more accessible price.
They will be able to reduce the profit margin of the drug for a single injection.
I may be too optimistic.
I don't think you are being very optimistic but rather you are being very rational. Right now if it is the case that Frequency Therapeutics can get FX-322 down to 3500 Hz, then that obviously demonstrates very good treatment outcomes from its current capability and would be excellent for everyone.
I think that the straight to market move is very likely looking at what is happening right now if they can get this done utilising the current trial because it is inevitably going to be the best outcome for everyone.
I agree that the price of FX-322 will probably vary depending on the number of shots you need. If you need four shots as opposed to someone who needs three, then I can absolutely see Frequency Therapeutics charge a lower amount for the additional shot simply because it is smart business to do so and also it would be completely plausible and logical to encompass the development, manufacturing and any other overhead costs into the price of the initial dose(s).
I guess everyone does the tests differently.
My experience has been the opposite of what you mentioned. You are in a soundproof booth, sometimes they are there with you, sometimes they are on the other side of a clear glass. I've always been able to see the person administering the test while they are giving it and I have quite a few hearing tests under my belt...
I was following CRISPR for a while but from what I read you have to do it before you lose your hearing to rewrite the faulty gene that causes hearing loss. Once you've lost your hearing it is too late.
I don't know how it is in your nation, however in Australia, all actual word score recognition testing are usually done from an automatic recording, really for the whole purpose of not being able to have skewed results. I think I have seen some stuff in America too where the testing is done through the same method and it is I think the best practice.
I know that they tend to do these recorded word score recognition tests with people being evaluated for cochlear implants in order to demonstrate that the testing is legitimate.
I don't know much about CRISPR but I would have thought that this gene would have only played a role in some cases.
This has been discussed every 2 or 3 pages on this thread but I think one reason it's extremely implausible that the word score improvements were due to any kind of "learning effect" or poorly controlled trial that allowed for lip reading is that the patients would have had to be "in on it" for this to work.
What I mean is that they tested the untreated ear in each patient and did not get word score improvements in any of them (nor the placebo group). This would mean that the treated patients would have to know they got drug vs placebo and be willing to put more effort into a "learning effect" for one ear and not the other (or fake not being able to do this for the untreated ear).
I think that's almost conspiracy theory territory and I'm really not buying it.
This is absolutely accurate. At this stage something tells me that the types of people who were very quick to dismiss the widespread word recognition score increases (even in those were not statistically significant) may have ulterior motives in their assessments. This is probably one of the most unmanipulatable tests that can be taken because it is incredibly difficult to learn and/or be able to guess the answers to it.
There is good evidence that FX-322 was beneficial because basically, as you have pointed out, no one actually had any idea whether they got the drug or the placebo. This is why I think that there has been no one who has been able to criticise FX-322 and also provide plausible reasoning as to why the benefit can be faked or is not real because this is not subjective.