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Oxford, UK 26 April 2016 - Summit Therapeutics plc (NASDAQ: SMMT, AIM: SUMM), the drug discovery and development company advancing therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy ('DMD') and Clostridium difficile infection, announces that the US Food and Drug Administration has cleared the Company's investigational new drug ('IND') application to expand the Phase 2 proof of concept clinical trial called PhaseOut DMD to trial sites in the US. PhaseOut DMD will evaluate the Company's lead utrophin modulator, ezutromid (formerly known as SMT C1100), in patients with DMD at sites in the UK and the US.
In contrast to many current therapeutic approaches to DMD, utrophin modulation has the potential to treat all boys and young men with DMD, regardless of their underlying dystrophin gene mutation.