Michael Grissinger appointed as new Chairman of AnaCardio
Stockholm, Sweden, June 3, 2024 AnaCardio, a Swedish clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focusing on developing novel contractile agents to treat patients with heart failure, announces today the appointment of Michael Grissinger, B.S M.B.A. as new chairman of the board. Michael has had a long and successful career in the pharmaceutical industry, leading large value business development transactions […]
AnaCardio selected as finalist at the J.P. Morgan Asset Management: Life Sciences Innovation Summit
Stockholm, Sweden, April 4 , 2024 AnaCardio, a Swedish clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel contractile agents to treat patients with heart failure, announced today that it has been selected as one of 11 finalists to present at the inaugural J.P. Morgan Asset Management: Life Sciences Innovation Summit. The summit will take place on […]
AnaCardio appoints Elin Rosendahl as CDO
Stockholm, Sweden, April 3, 2024 AnaCardio AB announces today the appointment of Elin Rosendahl, MSc as Chief Development Officer (CDO). Elin has more than 20 years of experience in managing global biopharmaceutical development programs and leading global cross-functional teams in both small and large pharma companies, and joins AnaCardio from her previous role as Vice […]
AnaCardio receives second tranche of SEK 50 million, completing the previously announced Series A round
AnaCardio, a Swedish clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focusing on developing novel contractile agents to treat patients with heart failure, announced today the closing of the SEK 50 M second tranche of its SEK 150 M Series A financing round. As announced in September 2022, the series A was co-led by Flerie Invest AB (Flerie) and Industrifonden, […]
AnaCardio receives IND approval from the FDA for AC01 to Start a Clinical Pharmacology Study
Stockholm, Sweden, August 17, 2023 AnaCardio, a Swedish clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focussing on developing novel contractile agents to treat patients with heart failure, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the company’s Investigational New Drug (IND) application for the investigational drug AC01. The approval enables expansion of the clinical development […]
AnaCardio reports first patient dosed in the GOAL-HF1 study, a Phase 1b/2a Clinical Study in Heart Failure with AC01 in the EU and UK
Solna, Sweden and Lugano, Switzerland, April 13, 2023 AnaCardio, a Swedish clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focussed on developing novel contractile agents with a unique mode of-action based on the ghrelin signaling pathway, today announced that the first patient has been successfully dosed in its GOAL-HF1 study of AC01 in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection […]
Ghrelin treatment in heart failure patients showed increased contractility of the heart
Stockholm, Sweden, March 14 , 2023 AnaCardio´s founder Prof Lars Lund and colleagues from The Karolinska Institutet publish study on ghrelin treatment in patients with heart failure and in isolated heart cells, demonstrating increased contractility and a novel mechanism of action AnaCardio, a Swedish clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel contractile agents with a […]
AnaCardio Receives Regulatory Approval to Start a Phase 1b/2a Clinical Study in Heart Failure with AC01 in the EU and UK
Stockholm, Sweden, November 17, 2022 AnaCardio today announces approval for the GOAL-HF1 Phase 1b/2a study from the competent authorities and ethics committes in Sweden, The Netherlands, Italy and the United Kingdom. This 28-day study will evaluate the effects of orally administered AC01 on safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and a series of pharmacodynamic readouts in patients with […]
AnaCardio raises SEK 150 million to advance drug candidate AC01 in heart failure
Stockholm, Sweden, September 7, 2022 AnaCardio raises SEK 150 million to advance drug candidate AC01 in heart failureAnaCardio announced today the completion of a SEK 150 M Series A financing round, co-led by Flerie Invest AB (Flerie) and Industrifonden. 3B Future Health Fund (3BFHF) joined Flerie and Industrifonden to complete the round together with the […]
AnaCardio exercises option to license a program in heart failure from Helsinn
Lugano, Switzerland and Stockholm, Sweden, February 3, 2022 Helsinn Group (“Helsinn”), a fully integrated, global biopharma company with a diversified pipeline of innovative oncology assets and strong track-record of commercial execution, and AnaCardio, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel drugs to treat heart failure, are pleased to announce that AnaCardio has exercised its option […]