Kareus Therapeutics Announces Phase I trial for product in Alzheimer's Disease
Kareus Therapeutics SA announces the start of a Phase I clinical study following the Investigational New Drug (IND) approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for the development of KU-046, a first-in-class disease modifying new chemical entity discovered for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease using Kareus’ proprietary bioenergetics and KARLECT platforms.
The Phase I clinical trial is a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled two-part study to assess the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of single ascending oral doses and of multiple ascending oral doses of KU-046 in 54 healthy young volunteers.
Kareus has developed a pipeline of novel molecules targeting diseases of the central nervous system based on its proprietary KARLECT chemistry and drug discovery platforms which target dysfunctional energy production in neurons. KU-046 targets bioenergetics pathways upstream from the increased abeta peptide production found in Alzheimer’s disease. It has demonstrated significant improvement in cognition in a number of pre-clinical models.
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