AC Immune SA (ACIU)

AC Immune SA, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, discovers, designs, and develops therapeutic and diagnostic products for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases associated with protein misfolding. Its SupraAntigen and Morphomer platforms are designed to generate vaccines, antibodies, and small molecules, which selectively interact with misfolded proteins that are common in a range of neurodegenerative diseases. The company's lead product candidate is crenezumab, a humanized, monoclonal, and conformation-specific anti-Abeta antibody, which is in Phase III clinical studies for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). It is also developing ACI-24, an anti-Abeta vaccine candidate that is in Phase I/IIa clinical study for AD; and ACI-35, an anti-Tau vaccine candidate against phosphorylated pathological tau and is in Phase Ib clinical testing in patients with mild to moderate AD, as well as RO7105705, an anti-Tau monoclonal antibody candidate, which is in Phase II clinical study for AD patients. In addition, the company has discovery and pre-clinical stage molecules targeting neurodegenerative diseases, as well as diagnostics targeting Tau, alpha-synuclein, and TDP-43 aggregates. It has license agreements and collaborations with Genentech, Inc.; Biogen International GmbH; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Piramal Imaging; and Essex Bio-Technology Limited, as well as Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences. AC Immune SA was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.