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In the phase 2 clinical study of GRF6021 in subjects with PD and cognitive impairment, GRF6021 demonstrated positive effects on cognitive endpoints and was safe and well tolerated by study participants.
Alkahest currently has four candidates in six phase-2 clinical trials covering therapeutic products for neurodegenerative, cognitive decline, neuromuscular and ophthalmic indications
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The company has dosed the first subject in AKST4290-205, which will assess the effects of AKST4290 on visual acuity with loading doses of anti-VEGF in treatment-naïve neovascular AMD patients.
The trial, AKST4290-211, is funded in part by The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research and will evaluate the effect of AKST4290 on motor function in Parkinson’s disease.