BioArctic enters into Collaboration with AbbVie for Parkinson’s Disease Research

Stockholm, Sweden, September 20, 2016 – BioArctic announced that it entered into a strategically important collaboration with AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a global biopharmaceutical company, to develop and commercialize BioArctic’s portfolio of antibodies directed against alpha-synuclein for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and other potential indications. Parkinson’s disease is the second most-common neurological disease, affecting more than 10 million people worldwide. Mutations in alpha-synuclein are strongly linked to development of Parkinson’s disease. Soluble aggregates of the alpha-