AC Immune Partner LMI Progresses Tau PET Tracer PI-2620 into Late-stage Development in Alzheimer’s Disease
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Sept. 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AC Immune SA (NASDAQ: ACIU), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering precision medicine for neurodegenerative diseases, today announced that its partner, Life Molecular Imaging (LMI), is moving PI-2620, the Tau positron-emission tomography (PET) tracer, into late-stage clinical development in Alzheimers disease (AD).
- LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Sept. 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AC Immune SA (NASDAQ: ACIU), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering precision medicine for neurodegenerative diseases, today announced that its partner, Life Molecular Imaging (LMI), is moving PI-2620, the Tau positron-emission tomography (PET) tracer, into late-stage clinical development in Alzheimers disease (AD).
- As part of the agreement with AC Immune, LMI will make a milestone payment.
- PI-2620 is a potentially best-in-class Tau PET tracer with high binding affinity and selectivity for aggregated Tau.
- We are looking forward to continuing the development of PI-2620 as the potentially best-in-class Tau PET tracer in patients with AD.