Treatment with Arbutus’ Imdusiran and VTP-300 Achieves Statistical Significance in Lowering HBsAg Levels

Data highlighted in oral presentation at the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) Congress

WARMISTER, Pa., June 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arbutus Biopharma Corporation (Nasdaq: ABUS) (“Arbutus” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company leveraging its extensive virology expertise to develop a functional cure for people with chronic hepatitis B virus (cHBV) infection, announced new preliminary end-of-treatment (EOT) data from the Phase 2a clinical trial (IM-PROVE II, AB-729-202) in patients receiving ongoing standard-of-care nucleos(t)ide analogue (NA) therapy indicating that treatment with imdusiran, Arbutus’ RNAi therapeutic, followed by Barinthus Biotherapeutic's T-cell stimulating immunotherapeutic, VTP-300, was generally safe, well-tolerated and led to maintenance of lower HBsAg levels during the post-treatment follow-up period in patients with cHBV. The data were presented today by Dr. Kosh Agarwal, MD, Consultant Hepatologist and Transplant Physician at the Institute of Liver Studies at King’s College Hospital, London, during a session focused on new treatments for viral hepatitis B at the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) Congress.