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Topline data from the RewinD-LB Phase 2b study on track for December 2024 Detailed safety and efficacy data from RewinD-LB Phase 2b study to be featured in an oral presentation at the ILBDC conference in January 2025 BOSTON, Oct. 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CervoMed Inc. (NASDAQ: CRVO), a clinical-stage company focused on developing treatments for age-related neurologic disorders, today announced that it will deliver an oral presentation providing detailed safety and efficacy results from its completed RewinD-LB Phase 2b clinical trial of neflamapimod in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) at the eighth International Lewy Body Dementia Conference (ILBDC) taking place on January 29-31, 2025 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. “As we await topline results from the RewinD-LB Phase 2b trial in DLB, we are extremely encouraged by the scientific community’s interest in the data and pleased to have an opportunity to present them at the leading scientific conference dedicated to Lewy Body Dementia,” said John Alam, MD, Chief Executive Officer of CervoMed. “There are currently no approved therapies for DLB, and the dementia clinical research community has a strong interest in the ongoing RewinD-LB Phase 2b study and its potential beneficial impact to patients and families. Topline results for RewinD-LB are expected to be disclosed in December 2024 and we are also presenting data on RewinD-LB baseline patient characteristics at the upcoming Clinical Trials on Alzheimer's Disease Conference (CTAD). Based on our preliminary analyses, we are confident that we have optimized RewinD-LB trial design to detect a statistically significant and clinically meaningful difference between neflamapimod and placebo.” Details of the ILBDC presentation are as follow:Abstract Title: Efficacy and safety results of the RewinD-LB phase 2b clinical trial of neflamapimod in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB)Format: Oral PresentationSession Name: Therapeutics in DLBSession Date and Time: Friday, January 31, 2025, 14.00-15.30 pm Local Time About CervoMed CervoMed Inc. (the “Company”) is a clinical-stage company focused on developing treatments for age-related neurologic disorders. The Company is currently developing neflamapimod, an investigational, orally administered small molecule brain penetrant that inhibits p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase alpha. Neflamapimod has the potential to treat synaptic dysfunction, the reversible aspect of the underlying neurodegenerative processes that causes disease in DLB and certain other major neurological disorders. Neflamapimod is currently being evaluated in a Phase 2b study in patients with early-stage DLB. 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Particular risks and uncertainties include, among other things, those related to: the Company’s available cash resources and the availability of additional funds on acceptable terms; the results of the Company’s clinical trials, including RewinD-LB; the likelihood and timing of any regulatory approval of neflamapimod or the nature of any feedback the Company may receive from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations in the future; general economic, political, business, industry, and market conditions, inflationary pressures, and geopolitical conflicts; and the other factors discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023 filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on March 29, 2024, and other filings that the Company may file from time to time with the SEC. 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SAN DIEGO, Oct. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gyre Therapeutics, Inc. (“Gyre”) (Nasdaq: GYRE), a self-sustainable, commercial-stage biotechnology company with clinical development programs focusing on a variety of chronic organ diseases, today announced that the last patient in Gyre Pharmaceuticals’ pivotal Phase 3 trial in the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”) evaluating F351 (hydronidone) for Chronic Hepatitis B (“CHB”)-associated liver fibrosis has completed the 52-week study. Gyre Pharmaceuticals expects to report topline data from this trial by the first quarter of 2025. “The final patient completing our pivotal F351 Phase 3 trial marks an important milestone for Gyre and our development pipeline. We are grateful to the patients, researchers, trial investigators, and various teams who supported this trial and look forward to sharing data in the first quarter of 2025,” said Han Ying, Ph.D., CEO of Gyre Therapeutics. “Furthermore, we are excited to potentially use these results to spur initiation of our Phase 2 clinical trial in the United States evaluating F351 for Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatohepatitis (“MASH”)-associated fibrosis in 2025.” The randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter Phase 3 trial (NCT05115942) enrolled 248 patients across 39 clinical research hospitals in the PRC. Patients were randomized 1:1 to receive either F351 or placebo in addition to entecavir antiviral basic therapy for CHB. The primary endpoint is a decrease in liver fibrosis (as measured by the Ishak Scoring System) by at least one stage after 52 weeks of treatment relative to baseline. China’s National Medical Products Administration (“NMPA”) designated F351 as a “Breakthrough Therapy” in 2021. About Hydronidone (F351) F351 is a structural analogue of the approved anti-fibrotic drug Pirfenidone (approved in the PRC for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis) and has been shown to inhibit in vitro both p38γ kinase activity and TGF-β1-induced excessive collagen synthesis in hepatic stellate cells (“HSCs”), which are recognized as critical event in the development and progression of fibrosis in the liver. This is further supported by its anti-proliferative effects on the HSCs in the liver. In vitro anti-fibrotic effects of F351 were also confirmed in several established in vivo models of liver fibrosis, such as CCI4-induced liver fibrosis mouse model, DMN-induced liver fibrosis rat model, and HSA-induced liver rat model, as well as mouse model of MASH fibrosis (CCI4+Western High Fat Diet). About Gyre Therapeutics Gyre Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company headquartered in San Diego, CA, with a primary focus on the development and commercialization of F351 (Hydronidone) for the treatment of MASH-associated fibrosis in the U.S. Gyre’s development strategy for F351 in MASH is based on the Company’s experience in MASH rodent model mechanistic studies and CHB-induced liver fibrosis clinical studies. Gyre is also advancing a diverse pipeline in the PRC through its indirect controlling interest in Gyre Pharmaceuticals, including ETUARY therapeutic expansions, F573, F528, and F230. About Gyre Pharmaceuticals Gyre Pharmaceuticals is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to the research, development, manufacturing and commercialization of innovative drugs for organ fibrosis. Its flagship product, ETUARY (Pirfenidone capsule), was the first approved treatment for IPF in the PRC in 2011 and has maintained a prominent market share (2023 net sales of $112.1 million). In addition, Gyre Pharmaceuticals is evaluating F351 in a Phase 3 clinical trial in CHB-associated liver fibrosis in the PRC, which is expected to readout topline data by the first quarter of 2025. F351 received Breakthrough Therapy designation by the National Medical Products Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation in March 2021. Gyre Pharmaceuticals is also developing treatments for COPD, PAH and ALF/ACLF. In October 2023, Gyre Therapeutics acquired an indirect majority interest in Gyre Pharmaceuticals (also known as Beijing Continent Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.). 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Actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of these risks and uncertainties, which include, without limitation: Gyre’s ability to execute on its clinical development strategies; positive results from a clinical trial may not necessarily be predictive of the results of future or ongoing clinical trials; the timing or likelihood of regulatory filings and approvals; competition from competing products; the impact of general economic, health, industrial or political conditions in the United States or internationally; the sufficiency of Gyre’s capital resources and its ability to raise additional capital. Additional risks and factors are identified under “Risk Factors” in Gyre’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023 filed on March 27, 2024 and in other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Gyre expressly disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. For Investors:Stephen Jasperstephen@gilmartinir.com

• On track to report topline data from the Phase 2b trial in December 2024 • Neflamapimod has the potential to restore function and improve cognitive and motor functions in DLB patients • 96% of patients enrolled in RewinD-LB completed the 16-week portion of the study, of which 98% continued into the open label extension Oct. 15, 2024 -- CervoMed Inc. (NASDAQ: CRVO), a clinical-stage company focused on developing treatments for age-related neurologic disorders, today announced the Last Patient Last Visit in RewinD-LB, a Phase 2b clinical trial evaluating neflamapimod in patients with early-stage dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). CervoMed remains on track to report topline efficacy and safety data in December 2024. “Completion of the last patient visit in the RewinD-LB Phase 2b trial is an important milestone in our neflamapimod program for DLB,” said John Alam, MD, Chief Executive Officer of CervoMed. “There has been a high level of enthusiasm from the clinical sites, trial investigators, and patients, reflecting the significant unmet need in the DLB patient population for which no treatment is currently approved. We are also encouraged by the fact that 96% of the patients enrolled into the study completed the 16-week double-blind placebo-controlled portion of the study, of which 98% continued into the open label extension. Furthermore, our independent Data Safety Monitoring Board recently met to conduct a pre-specified review of the available safety data and concluded that the study may proceed without modification. We look forward to sharing topline data in December 2024. Dr. Alam continued; “We are also pleased to deliver late-breaking oral presentations at the upcoming Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease (CTAD) conference, where we will discuss plasma biomarker data and their relevance to our ongoing trial. Leveraging insights from our Phase 2a trial and the baseline characteristics of patients enrolled in RewinD-LB, we think that we have enrolled the appropriate early DLB patient population we were targeting when we designed the study, namely participants who both have substantial clinical deficits and are still able to show improvements in their underlying disease process. [Combined with the use of a clinically meaningful primary endpoint, these data further increase our confidence that we are well positioned in the trial as we approach the topline readout in December. With a positive result, we believe we’ll have demonstrated true clinical proof-of-concept for neflamapimod as a specific treatment for patients with DLB.” The full details on CervoMed’s upcoming oral late-breaking presentations at CTAD can be found here. CervoMed’s ongoing Phase 2b study, RewinD-LB, is a randomized, 16-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial evaluating oral neflamapimod (40mg TID) in 159 patients with early-stage DLB. In early-stage DLB patients – who are estimated to comprise approximately 50% of the total diagnosed DLB patient population at any given time – the disease has not progressed to a point where the patient has significant neuronal loss in the hippocampus. Patients with advanced DLB – in whom there is a significant, irreversible neuronal loss in the hippocampus and associated Alzheimer’s Disease co-pathology -- as assessed by a blood biomarker (plasma ptau181), were excluded from the study. The primary endpoint in the study is a change in the Clinical Dementia Rating Sum of Boxes, and secondary endpoints include the Timed Up and Go test, a cognitive test battery, and the Clinician’s Global Impression of Change. The RewinD-LB study is funded by a $21.0 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Aging, which is being disbursed over the course of the study as costs are incurred. The study includes 43 sites (32 in the United States, 8 in the United Kingdom, and 3 in the Netherlands) and completed enrollment in June 2024, with topline data expected in December 2024. Patients completing the 16-week placebo-controlled study period will be able to continue in the study while receiving open-label neflamapimod treatment for an additional 32 weeks. More information on the RewinD-LB study, including contact information on active clinical trial sites, is available at clinicaltrials.gov (NCT05869669). CervoMed Inc. (the “Company”) is a clinical-stage company focused on developing treatments for age-related neurologic disorders. The Company is currently developing neflamapimod, an investigational, orally administered small molecule brain penetrant that inhibits p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase alpha. Neflamapimod has the potential to treat synaptic dysfunction, the reversible aspect of the underlying neurodegenerative processes that causes disease in DLB and certain other major neurological disorders. Neflamapimod is currently being evaluated in a Phase 2b study in patients with early-stage DLB. The content above comes from the network. if any infringement, please contact us to modify.