BerGenBio and Oslo University Hospital Announce the AXL Inhibitor Bemcentinib will be Studied in the EU Funded EU-SolidAct trial in Hospitalised COVID-19 Patients - Seite 2

Martin Olin, Chief Executive Officer of BerGenBio, commented: "As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve, it is even more important to identify new therapies for hospitalised patients that have a mechanism of action effective across disease variants. The EU-SolidAct platform provides BerGenBio with a unique opportunity to rapidly study the effectiveness of bemcentinib and to evaluate the promising signals of efficacy that were observed in the hospitalised patients requiring oxygen in earlier studies."

Associate professor Marius Trøseid, Oslo University Hospital, Chief Investigator of EU-SolidAct, commented: "With new variants and evolving patient populations, it is increasingly important to have more treatment options for preventing need of intensive care and long hospitalisations. We hope that bemcentinib will help reduce disease severity and improve the clinical condition of hospitalized patients."

Contacts
For the EU-SolidAct:  
Chief Investigator Marius Trøseid, Oslo University Hospital, [phone], [e-mail]
Trøseid is Senior consultant and Associate professor.
For BerGenBio:
Martin Olin, CEO, BerGenBio ASA
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Rune Skeie, CFO, BerGenBio ASA
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International Media Relations
Mary-Jane Elliott, Chris Welsh, Lucy Featherstone
Consilium Strategic Communications
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About BerGenBio ASA

BerGenBio is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing transformative drugs targeting AXL as a potential cornerstone of therapy for aggressive diseases, including immune-evasive, therapy resistant cancers. The company's proprietary lead candidate, bemcentinib, is a potentially first-in-class selective AXL inhibitor in a broad phase II clinical development programme focused on combination and single agent therapy in cancer and COVID-19. A first-in-class functional blocking anti-AXL antibody, tilvestamab, is undergoing phase I clinical testing. In parallel, BerGenBio is developing companion diagnostic tests to potentially identify patient populations most likely to benefit from AXL inhibition. This is expected to facilitate more efficient registration trials supporting a precision medicine-based commercialisation strategy.