AC Immune Initiates Clinical Study of First-in-class Diagnostic for Parkinson’s Disease
February 08, 2021 07:00 ET
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AC Immune SA
AC Immune SA
Lausanne, SWITZERLAND
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Feb. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AC Immune SA (NASDAQ: ACIU), a Swiss-based, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with a broad pipeline focused on neurodegenerative diseases, today announced that the first patient has been scanned in a first-in-human study of its novel diagnostic agent for Parkinson’s disease (PD). ACI-12589 is a next-generation positron emission tomography (PET) imaging tracer that has shown significant potential to reliably detect and map deposits of pathological alpha-synuclein protein in the brain, which is the major hallmark of PD. AC Immune expects to report the results of the study in Q3 2021. The clinical study is supported by the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF), building on The Foundation’s significant funding of AC Immune’s program since 2015.