Cat­a­lyst Bio shares bashed as neu­tral­iz­ing an­ti­bod­ies force in­ves­ti­ga­tors to freeze he­mo­phil­ia co­hort work

Shares of Cat­a­lyst Bio­sciences $CBIO were bad­ly dam­aged in the wake of an alert that two pa­tients in one co­hort of their ear­ly-stage he­mo­phil­ia drug study de­vel­oped a neu­tral­iz­ing an­ti­body af­ter a course of ther­a­py with their Fac­tor IX (FIX) can­di­date CB 2679d/ISU304.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors have now sus­pend­ed treat­ment in co­hort 6 and will stay on hold un­til they fig­ure out what went wrong. The two pa­tients were able to re­sume treat­ment with their pre­scribed IV FIX pro­phy­lax­is ther­a­pies.

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