Eirion's ET-02: Revolutionary New Drug?

This drug has successfully completed Phase I clinical trials for safety, and at least is supposed to be going into Phase II this year… Could be a revolutionary treatment!

Some specifics:

  1. Much better and quicker regrowth results than Minoxidil
  2. Can be taken orally or topically
  3. Safety profile is excellent - no serious side effects reported
  4. It’s a small molecule that easily penetrates the skin in a topical formulation
  5. More non-vellus hairs and thicker diameter of hairs
  6. Results seen in only a few weeks
  7. Repairs damaged hair follicle stem cells
  8. May also help change grey hair back to original color

Sounds promising!

Two questions though:

-A clinical study of 24 subjects doesn’t sound like a lot, does it? Especially given that only 8 people were administered the proper dose.

-Isn’t it weird, that they only compared the results to minoxidil - completely ignoring finasteride? Sounds a little convenient to me.

In either case, I look forward to hearing more about this one.

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Eirion Therapeutics’ ET-02 is a topical treatment for hair loss that some say has the potential to be a revolutionary new drug. The drug is being developed to treat androgenic alopecia, or hair loss, and may also be able to treat hair graying.