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Cerecor Turns The LIGHT Back On As Avalo, With PRV Haul In Sight

Anti-LIGHT Focus On IBD Expanded To COVID-19 ARDS

 
• By Joseph Haas

The former Cerecor boasts four pipeline assets that could yield US FDA priority review vouchers. Having divested CNS assets, the renamed firm will focus on IBD with first-in-class anti-LIGHT candidate, plus immunology and rare diseases.

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It's a new day for Avalos, which continues some of Aevi and Cerecor's ambitions

Following its late 2019 merger with Aevi Genomic Medicine, Inc., Cerecor Inc. is taking a new name – Avalo Therapeutics – and revising its therapeutic focus, having divested a pair of central nervous system candidates earlier this year. Its near-term focus is on a first-in-class LIGHT-targeted antibody that it is accelerating as COVID-19 respiratory therapy and developing for inflammatory bowel disease, but the renamed company is also working on four pipeline assets that could yield priority review vouchers if approved.

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