May 31, 2010 – GENFIT (Alternext: ALGFT; ISIN: FR0004163111), a biopharmaceutical company at the forefront of drug discovery and development, focusing on the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of cardiometabolic and associated disorders, announces that it has received approval from the French medical agencies to initiate the enrollment of patients in two major clinical trials in pre-diabetes and the early stages of diabetes, as part of its IT-Diab program.The DECODIAB (DEpistage et COmpréhension du préDIABète) study, where a cohort of 500 hyperglycemic subjects will be assessed prospectively over a 5 year period for their conversion to Type 2 Diabetes, is led by Pr. Bertrand Cariou (Endocrinology-Diabetology Department, Thorax Institute/U915 INSERM, CHU Nantes, France). It will offer the opportunity to identify and validate in humans new biomarkers of -cell dysfunction in a population prone to develop Type 2 Diabetes. Enrollment for the DECODIAB trial is expected to begin in June 2010... [PDF] GENFIT's Press Release -
