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Coya Therapeutics (“Coya”) Announces the Appointment of Dr. Merit Cudkowicz, M.D., M.Sc., as Clinical Advisor to Support the Development of COYA 302 for the Treatment of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Dr. Merit Cudkowicz is the Director of the Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS, Chief of Neurology at Mass General, Director and the Julieanne Dorn Professor
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\nDr. Merit Cudkowicz is the Director of the Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS, Chief of Neurology at Mass General, Director and the Julieanne Dorn Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School.\n\n\n\nDr. Cudkowicz’s research and clinical activities are dedicated to the study and treatment of people with ALS; she is one of the founders and past Co-Chairs of the Northeast ALS Consortium (NEALS), a group of over 134 clinical sites in the United States, Canada, Europe and the Middle East dedicated to performing collaborative clinical trials and research in ALS.\n\n\n\nDr. Cudkowicz will support the development of Coya’s most advanced clinical asset, COYA 302, a dual-mechanism investigational biologic combination comprised of low dose Interleukin-2 (ld-IL2) that is intended to enhance anti-inflammatory regulatory T cell function with a fusion protein (CTLA4-Ig) that is intended to suppress pro-inflammatory cell function.\n\n\n\nCoya previously reported positive clinical data for COYA 302 for the treatment of ALS in a four-patient, open-label investigator-initiated trial illustrating that treatment with LD-IL2 + CTLA4-Ig halted disease progression over 6 months, and resulted in minimal decline over 12 months, in a cohort of patients who were declining prior to study initiation at an average of -1.1 ALSFRS-R points per month.\n\n\n\n HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nCoya Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: COYA) (“Coya” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing biologics intended to enhance Treg function, today announced the engagement of Merit Cudkowicz, MD, MSc as expert clinical advisor. Dr. Cudkowicz is a world-renowned neurologist who has dedicated her career to improving the life of patients with ALS and other serious neurological conditions. Dr. Cudkowicz brings decades of experience supporting the development of new therapies for ALS.\n\n\nDr. Cudkowicz is Principal Investigator of the Clinical Coordination Center for the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke’s Neurology Network of Excellence in Clinical Trials (NeuroNEXT). Dr. Cudkowicz has launched the first platform trial initiative in ALS, the HEALEY ALS Platform Trial, a program that helps accelerate therapy development in ALS.\n\n\nDr. Cudkowicz received the American Academy of Neurology 2009 Sheila Essay ALS award, the 2017 Forbes...