- Clene is a late clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on improving mitochondrial health and protecting neuronal function to treat neurodegenerative diseases like ALS
- In 2019, Clene’s drug candidate, CNM-Au8(R), was selected for the HEALEY ALS Platform Trial, with enrollment commencing in the summer of 2020
- Over the years since, Clene has consistently released additional data from the Trial, most recently reporting significant long-term survival improvement among patients treated with CNM-Au8 compared to PRO-ACT historical controls
- The company also announced the publication of a peer-reviewed study in the nanotechnology-focused journal Small; the study describes CNM-Au8’s mechanism of action
- Clene received a $45.1 million NINDS grant to support an Expanded Access Protocol (“EAP”) program and study for CNM-Au8 in ALS
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (“ALS”), or Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a progressive and degenerative neuromuscular disease that destroys nerve cells known as motor neurons, which control voluntary muscle movement (https://ibn.fm/bgJGu). A fatal neurological disorder, ALS lowers the life expectancy of patients to two to five years post-diagnosis, although some patients may live longer, as was the case with the late Stephen Hawking, who lived with ALS for more than five decades (https://ibn.fm/v6LIz).
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) estimated that more than 31,000 patients were living with ALS in 2017 (https://ibn.fm/Vdee8), with a subsequent study calculating the 2017 prevalence of ALS in the adult U.S. population arriving at an age-adjusted prevalence of between 5.5 and 9.9 per…
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