Aqilion starts Phase 1 clinical trial with drug candidate AQ280 for chronic inflammatory diseases
AQILION AB (publ) announces today that the Phase 1 clinical safety study on the drug candidate AQ280 on healthy volunteers has started. The substance AQ280, part of the company’s Regulus development program, is a super selective JAK1 small molecule inhibitor that is under development for indications within chronic inflammatory diseases. Aqilion has thus reached a very important milestone as the company has managed to take the big step from preclinical phase to clinical Phase 1. The Phase 1 clinical trial, ARIA-1, will include 64 healthy volunteers. The purpose of the study is to