Tranzyme refocus failure confirmed as TZP-102 crashes again
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Tranzyme Pharma is stopping a second clinical trial with TZP-102, an oral ghrelin agonist, as a treatment for diabetic gastroporesis because it failed to outperform placebo.
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