Company: PRTA
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001559053-25-000009
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Company: PROTHENA CORP PUBLIC LTD CO
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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lonal antibody, in approximately 475 participants with early Alzheimer's disease. Participants will be randomized into one of three treatment arms including placebo, BMS-986446 Dose A, and BMS-986446 Dose B. The primary outcome measure is mean change from baseline to week 76 in Clinical Dementia Rating Scale Sum of Boxes (“CDR-SB”).

PRX012 for the Potential Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease

PRX012 is an investigational antibody that targets Aβ, or amyloid beta, a protein implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. Our scientists have advanced the understanding of the biology of Alzheimer’s disease and made particularly impactful and fundamental discoveries that elucidated the role amyloid plays in the disease. 

Monoclonal antibodies targeting key epitopes within the N-terminus of Aβ have demonstrated that reducing amyloid plaque burden is associated with the slowing of clinical decline in Alzheimer’s disease. To address the growing prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease with a therapeutic that can be made widely accessible to patients, we have developed highly potent anti-Aβ antibodies that retain or improve key attributes that are thought to underlie the observed efficacy of N-terminally directed therapeutics such as aducanumab, with the aim of offering similar or improved efficacy with convenient subcutaneous dosing regimens. In preclinical studies, our antibodies demonstrated a higher binding strength to amyloid than aducanumab; specifically, our lead candidate with an approximately 10-fold greater affinity/avidity for fibrillar Aβ than aducanumab that also neutralized soluble, toxic (i.e., oligomeric) Aβ species. Preclinical studies also showed that our antibodies recognize Aβ pathology to a greater extent than aducanumab, demonstrating more extensive plaque area binding at lower antibody concentrations, which are estimated to be clinically relevant exposures in the central nervous system following systemic dosing.

We are advancing our lead candidate, PRX012, as a next-generation approach for subcutaneous administration to address the unmet need of millions of patients with presymptomatic or early symptomatic Alzheimer's disease. In March 2022, we announced the FDA clearance of the IND for PRX012 and the initiation of a Phase 1 single ascending dose trial to investigate the safety, tolerability, immunogenicity, and pharmacokinetics of PRX012 in both healthy volunteers and patients with Alzheimer’s disease. In April 2022, we announced that the FDA granted Fast Track designation for PRX012 for