Expert Interview
Delving into the Phase 3 STELLAR trial data released at ACC 2023 on Merck's sotatercept for treating PAH
Ticker(s): MRK, UTHRInstitution: Baylor University College of Medicine
- Interventional Cardiologist, Associate Professor, and Chief of Cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine.
- Treats ~75 patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.
- Studies the molecular mechanisms of cardiovascular development with a focus on the intrinsic signaling that trigger cardiac regeneration early in life, molecular events that regulate developmental decisions instructing cardiac progenitor cells to adopt a specific cell fate, and delivery approaches of cardiovascular progenitors into an injured heart.
- Recently identified several novel surface markers that can highly enrich for early cardiovascular progenitors and his studies have established the basis for future PSC-based cardiac therapy.
How does this data reflect on the likelihood of sotatercept's approval?
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