ClearB Therapeutics Announces Acceptance of Abstract Highlighting Pre-Clinical Chronic Hepatitis B Data as a Poster Presentation at EASL 2022

CONCORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ClearB Therapeutics, Inc., a company developing CLB-3000, a therapeutic vaccine designed to drive functional cure of hepatitis B, announced today that its abstract entitled ‘Therapeutic vaccination with CLB-3000 in a mouse model of chronic Hepatitis B induces anti-HBs responses associated with functional cure’ was accepted for poster presentation at the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) International Liver Congress (ILC) 2022, taking place in London, UK June 22 - 26, 2022.

“As we continue to progress our therapeutic vaccine candidate, CLB-3000, toward first in human trials, we are excited to share our preclinical data with the Hepatitis B community,” said Aileen Rubio, PhD., CEO for the company. “Chronic infection with Hepatitis B (CHB) remains a significant disease, where functional cure has so far been elusive and combination therapies are likely needed. We believe that re-education of patients’ immune systems to break tolerance of their chronic HBV infections through co-administration of ClearB’s therapeutic vaccine could become an important component of such treatment regimens.”

Abstract Number: 723 / SAT362
Abstract Title : Therapeutic vaccination with CLB-3000 in a mouse model of chronic Hepatitis B induces anti-HBs responses associated with functional cure
Date: Saturday, June 25, 2022
Time: 9:00 AM GMT+1
Presenter Name: Dr. Aileen Rubio, ClearB Therapeutics

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https://easl.eu/event/international-liver-congress-2022/

About ClearB Therapeutics
ClearB Therapeutics was co-founded in 2017 by Morningside Ventures in collaboration with Professor Stephen Locarnini and the Victoria Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory in Melbourne, Australia. ClearB is working to develop therapeutic vaccines designed to drive functional cure of hepatitis B. The work is grounded in proprietary insights derived from studying rare-event infection resolution in patients who suffer from chronic hepatitis B. For more information, please visit https://clearbtherapeutics.com/.

About Morningside Ventures: Morningside was founded in 1986 by the Chan family, to make private equity and venture capital investments in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. In the life sciences, Morningside specializes in early-stage (pre-clinical through human proof-of-concept) investments in biopharmaceutical products. They partner with academic founders and entrepreneurs to build world-class companies that want to markedly improve the current state of medicine today and ultimately, the lives of patients. Morningside's focus is to invest in excellent biomedical research, where a significant body of knowledge has been gathered and there is a plausible path forward in clinical development. Their mission is to contribute to making a meaningful, positive impact on the prevention or treatment of human disease, and believe that so long as this is achieved, commercial success will follow.