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Tectonic Therapeutic to Host KOL Event on the Unmet Need in Group 2 PH-HFpEF and TX45 as a Potential Treatment on Thursday, December 12, 2024
WATERTOWN, Mass., Dec. 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tectonic Therapeutic, Inc. (NASDAQ: TECX) (“Tectonic”) a clinical stage biotechnology company focused on
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[{"type":"text","content":"WATERTOWN, Mass., Dec. 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tectonic Therapeutic, Inc. (NASDAQ: TECX) (“Tectonic”) a clinical stage biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of therapeutic proteins and antibodies that modulate the activity of G-protein coupled receptors (“GPCRs”), today announced it will host a virtual key opinion leader (KOL) event on Thursday, December 12, 2024 from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM ET. To register, click here. Key opinion leaders will include John R. Teerlink, MD, FHFSA (University of California San Francisco) and Raymond L. Benza, MD, FACC, FAHA, FACP (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai), who will discuss the unmet medical need and current treatment landscape for patients with Group 2 Pulmonary Hypertension due to Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (Group 2 PH-HFpEF). The event will focus on Tectonic’s lead program, TX45, an investigational Fc-relaxin fusion protein with optimized pharmacokinetics and biophysical properties that activates the RXFP1 receptor, the GPCR target of the hormone relaxin. TX45 is being evaluated in patients with Group 2 PH-HFpEF in an ongoing Phase 1b hemodynamic proof-of-concept study and a Phase 2 clinical proof-of-concept study. A live question and answer session will follow the formal presentations. About the Key Opinion Leaders: Professor John R. Teerlink, MD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FHFA, FHFSA, FRCP (London)Professor Teerlink is Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). After graduating from Swarthmore College with a Religion major, he received an MD from Harvard Medical School and completed his Internal Medicine residency and Cardiovascular Medicine fellowship at UCSF, as well as post-doctoral fellowships in Cardiovascular pharmacology (Hoffman-LaRoche; Basel, Switzerland), echocardiography (UCSF) and heart failure (UCSF-affiliated hospital). He is actively involved in the design and execution of many heart failure clinical trials, serving on endpoint, data monitoring, steering and executive committees for numerous international studies investigating a variety of new pharmacologic therapies, as well as stem cell and gene therapies, diagnostic modalities and other devices. He was the lead clinical investigator for the serelaxin development program, serving as Principal Investigator for Pre-RELAX-AHF, RELAX-AHF, RELAX...