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NEW YORK, Oct. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lexeo Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: LXEO), a clinical stage genetic medicine company dedicated to pioneering treatments for genetically defined cardiovascular diseases and APOE4-associated Alzheimer’s disease, today announced that interim data from the ongoing Phase 1/2 trial (NCT03634007) of LX1001 have been selected as a late-breaking oral presentation at the Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease (CTAD) conference taking place October 29 - November 1, 2024, in Madrid, Spain. The presentation will include new safety and biomarker data from four dose cohorts of LX1001, an AAVrh10-based gene therapy candidate designed to deliver the protective APOE2 gene into the central nervous systems of APOE4 homozygotes with Alzheimer’s disease.
“APOE4-associated Alzheimer’s disease is a devastating, genetically distinct condition and despite recent therapeutic advances, patients with this genetic profile have limited effective treatment options,” said Dr. Sandi See Tai, Chief Development Officer of Lexeo Therapeutics. “We look forward to presenting new data from the first clinical trial seeking to address the underlying genetic cause of APOE4-associated Alzheimer’s disease with a targeted approach.”
The Phase 1/2 clinical trial is an open-label, dose-ranging study evaluating the safety and tolerability of LX1001 in fifteen patients with Alzheimer’s disease and two copies of the APOE4 allele (APOE4 homozygous patients). Study enrollment was completed in Q4 2023. The presentation will review safety as well as multiple measures of efficacy, including protein expression and tau and amyloid biomarkers. 12-month data will be presented for all patients in Cohorts 1-3, and 6-month data for Cohort 4.
Oral presentation details:
Title: Safety and Preliminary Efficacy of AAV Gene Therapy (LX1001) in Patients with APOE4 Homozygote Alzheimer’s Disease – Interim Data from a Phase 1/2, Open-Label, 52-Week, Multicenter Study, Abstract #486
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 30, at 10:50AM, CET (5:50AM ET)
LX1001 is an AAVrh10-based gene therapy candidate for the treatment of APOE4-homozygous Alzheimer’s disease. Individuals homozygous for APOE4, an allele of the gene APOE, are approximately 15 times more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than the general population, and it is estimated that there are approximately 900,000 APOE4 homozygous patients with Alzheimer’s disease in the United States. Conversely, individuals homozygous for the APOE allele APOE2 are 40% less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than the general population. LX1001 is designed to express the protective APOE2 gene in the central nervous system of APOE4 homozygous patients, potentially slowing or halting the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. LX1001 has been granted Fast Track designation by the FDA.
About Lexeo Therapeutics
Lexeo Therapeutics is a New York City-based, clinical stage genetic medicine company dedicated to transforming healthcare by applying pioneering science to fundamentally change how genetically defined cardiovascular diseases and APOE4-associated Alzheimer’s disease are treated. Using a stepwise development approach, Lexeo is leveraging early proof-of-concept functional and biomarker data to advance a pipeline of cardiovascular and APOE4-associated Alzheimer’s disease programs.
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