Allon Therapeutics, a Vancouver, BC-based developer of drugs for neurological disorders, said today it has started enrolling patients in a pivotal clinical trial of its lead drug candidate. The trial will look at whether Allon’s davunetide offers any benefit for patients with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), a rare and deadly brain disease. Allon has also tested this drug’s potential against Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia, as CEO Gordon McCauley described in an interview with Xconomy last April.
Author: Luke Timmerman
Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
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