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FDA Feedback on Actinogen’s Xanamem Alzheimer’s Trail
- Published October 05, 2016 12:21PM UTC
- Publisher Wholesale Investor
- Categories Company Updates
29th September 2016, ASX Announcement
Actinogen Medical Limited (ASX: ACW) advises that it has received feedback from the FDA today with further questions around potential safety surveillance of the drug Xanamem to be answered before patients can be treated in the U.S.
ABOUT ACTINOGEN MEDICAL
Actinogen Medical Ltd (ASX: ACW) is an Australian, publicly-listed early clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the treatment of cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease.
Actinogen is developing Xanamem™ as a novel treatment approach to Alzheimer’s disease and other age-related neurodegenerative diseases. Xanamem™ displays high potency and selectivity for inhibiting the activity of a key enzyme in the brain, which converts cortisone to cortisol. Cortisol is also known as the stress hormone, and elevated levels of cortisol has previously been linked to cognitive impairment. The pivotal human proof of concept study, also known as XanADu, commenced in 2Q2016.
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