Cash Runway Extended Into 2017
As the Company's 190-patient Phase IIb Abili-T trial approaches completion, with the final dose for the last patient having been administered last week, the Company is reducing its work force by approximately 30%. The reduction-in-force includes the Company's Chief Financial Officer,
"We are focused on closing out the Phase IIb Abili-T study in secondary progressive multiple sclerosis patients and presenting top-line data early in the fourth quarter of this year," said
About Opexa
Opexa is a biopharmaceutical company developing a personalized immunotherapy with the potential to treat major illnesses, including multiple sclerosis (MS) as well as other autoimmune diseases such as neuromyelitis optica (NMO). These therapies are based on Opexa's proprietary T-cell technology. The Company's leading therapy candidate, Tcelna®, is a personalized T-cell immunotherapy that is in a Phase IIb clinical development program (the Abili-T trial) for the treatment of secondary progressive MS. Tcelna consists of myelin-reactive T-cells, which are expanded ex vivo from the patient's peripheral blood and reintroduced into the same patient in an attenuated form via subcutaneous injections. This process triggers a potent immune response against specific subsets of autoreactive T-cells known to attack myelin for each individual patient.
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