Chemocentryx takes a leap of faith with avacopan

The failure of Inflarx’s IFX-1 had already sown doubts about Chemocentryx’s similarly acting lead project, avacopan, in the skin disease hidradenitis suppurativa. Now it seems Chemocentryx is going to ignore a new red flag: despite the phase II Aurora study of avacopan being a bust, the company is pushing into phase III.