Herantis Pharma Plc is now starting recruiting healthy volunteers for part 2 of the ongoing Phase 1a clinical study of HER-096. In part 2, 12-16 older and elderly healthy volunteers will be administered with a single dose of HER-096 to evaluate the blood-brain-barrier penetration of HER-096 in addition the safety and tolerability. The HER-096 investigational medicinal product will be administered as a subcutaneous injection.

The study is a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetic study of subcutaneous single ascending doses of HER-096. The study aims to recruit around 60 healthy volunteer subjects. The study takes place in Turku, Finland conducted by the contract research organization, CRST.