SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed in the Southern District of California on behalf of purchasers of Odonate Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:ODT) securities between December 7, 2017 and August 21, 2020 (the “Class Period”). The case is captioned Kendall v. Odonate Therapeutics, Inc., No. 20-cv-01828, and is assigned to Judge Marilyn Huff. The Odonate class action lawsuit charges Odonate and certain of its officers with violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 permits any investor who purchased Odonate securities during the Class Period to seek appointment as lead plaintiff in the Odonate class action lawsuit. A lead plaintiff will act on behalf of all other class members in directing the Odonate class action lawsuit. The lead plaintiff can select a law firm of its choice to litigate the Odonate class action lawsuit. An investor’s ability to share in any potential future recovery of the Odonate class action lawsuit is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff of the Odonate class action lawsuit or have questions concerning your rights regarding the Odonate class action lawsuit, please provide your information here or contact counsel, J.C. Sanchez of Robbins Geller, at 800/449-4900 or 619/231-1058 or via e-mail at jsanchez@rgrdlaw.com. Lead plaintiff motions for the Odonate class action lawsuit must be filed with the court no later than November 16, 2020.
Odonate is a pharmaceutical company that develops therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. Odonate is focused on developing tesetaxel, an orally administered chemotherapy agent. Tesetaxel is in a Phase 3 clinical study for patients with locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer (“MBC”), called the CONTESSA trial, which is evaluating tesetaxel in combination with capecitabine in patients with MBC.
The Odonate class action lawsuit alleges that during the Class Period defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) tesetaxel was not as safe or well-tolerated as Odonate had led investors to believe; (ii) consequently, tesetaxel’s commercial viability as a cancer treatment was overstated; and (iii) as a result, Odonate’s public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
On August 24, 2020, Odonate issued a press release announcing top-line results from the CONTESSA trial. Although the study met its primary endpoint, tesetaxel plus capecitabine was associated with Grade 3 or higher neutropenia (low levels of white blood cells), which occurred in 71.2% of patients with the combination treatment versus 8.3% for capecitabine alone. Various other Grade 3 or higher treatment-emergent adverse events were also associated with tesetaxel plus capecitabine versus capecitabine alone. Further, discontinuation rates were 4.2% from neutropenia and 3.6% from neuropathy, and the overall discontinuation rate was 23.1% in the treatment group compared to 11.9% in the capecitabine alone group. On this news, Odonate’s stock price fell more than 45%, damaging investors.
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