{"id":493866,"date":"2024-01-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platohealth.ai\/roche-jumps-ship-on-ac-immune\/"},"modified":"2024-01-23T01:45:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T06:45:35","slug":"roche-jumps-ship-on-ac-immune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platohealth.ai\/roche-jumps-ship-on-ac-immune\/","title":{"rendered":"Roche jumps ship on AC Immune","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
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Genentech, Roche\u2019s US subsidiary, is ending its decades-long collaboration with AC Immune SA<\/a> after disappointing study results. It has handed the global rights to Crenezumab and Semorinemab back to the Lausanne-based biotech.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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In recent trials, both Semorinemab, a monoclonal antibody (mAb) binding all forms of Tau, and Crenezumab, a mAb targeting multiple forms of misfolded Abeta, had failed to show consistently positive results. It was these underwhelming study results that led to the split, Roche told the biotech analysts at Endpoint News. \u201cFollowing data read-outs, the evaluation of programmes with AC Immune have led to the decision to stop any further research and development of semorinemab and crenezumab, which also means our long-lasting partnership with AC Immune is coming to an end,\u201d Roche told <\/a>Endpoint News.<\/p>\n

AC Immune, meanwhile, is putting a positive spin on the news: \u201cAC Immune is highly focused on progressing its three active immunotherapies from its precision medicine pipeline,\u201d commented CEO Andrea Pfeifer. The company\u2019s pipeline features sixteen therapeutic and diagnostic programmes, among them ACI-24.060, an anti-amyloid beta (Abeta) active immunotherapy (vaccine)-candidate for treatment of Alzheimer\u2019s disease, ACI-7104.056, an anti-alpha-synuclein (a-syn) active immunotherapy, to treat Parkinson\u2019s disease, and ACI-35.030, an investigational targeted active immunotherapy, selective for pathological phosphorylated Tau (pTau).
Pfeifer continued: \u201cWith the recent milestone payment from our partner in the Tau active immunotherapy programme, plus the US50m financing secured in December, we are well financed into 2026, and able to advance multiple high value development programmes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n