Resverlogix Hosts Symposium to Discuss the Role of BET-inhibition in Modifying Cardiovascular Risk at the ESC Congress in Rome, Italy

CALGARY, Alberta, August 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

The presentations at the ESC Congress symposium highlighted apabetalone and the opportunity and need for a novel approach to the treatment of high risk cardiovascular disease and diabetes. 

Resverlogix Corp. ("Resverlogix" or the "Company") (TSX:RVX) today announced that on Sunday, August 28, 2016, at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress in Rome, Italy, the Company hosted a symposium entitled "A novel approach for high CV risk patients with diabetes: The potential of epigenetics."

The speakers and agenda were as follows:

Introduction
Stefano Del Prato, MD - Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

The High Risk Diabetes patient with cardiovascular disease:
What else can we target to reduce cardiovascular risk?
Kausik Ray, MD - Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Understanding BET inhibition as a novel pathway for cardiovascular risk modulation
Jorge Plutzky, MD - Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

BET inhibition in cardiovascular disease: A new dawn?
John Kastelein, MD - Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Discussion & summary
Stefano Del Prato, MD - Kausik Ray, MD

Presentations will be made available at: http://www.pace-cme.org.

Donald J. McCaffery, President and CEO commented, "The presentations at the ESC Congress symposium highlighted apabetalone and the opportunity and need for a novel approach to the treatment of high risk cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Moreover, data presented demonstrated the important role for epigenetics in the underlying pathology of these diseases". McCaffrey added that "based on its mechanism, we believe that apabetalone has the potential to address the significant unmet medical need in this patient population. Importantly, we remain encouraged by the recent data safety monitoring board review and recommendation to proceed with the BETonMACE phase 3 trial, as planned. The trial has already attained one quarter enrollment of the planned 2,400 patients and remains on track with internal projections."

Resverlogix also presented a poster at the congress entitled: "Modulation of the complement cascade in cardiovascular disease patients by a bromodomain and extraterminal (BET) protein inhibitor". The poster will be made available on the Resverlogix website at:http://www.resverlogix.com/media/presentations-publications.html#.V8Lq-pgrKhc.

The poster contained data demonstrating that apabetalone treatment reduced basal and cytokine-induced expression of complement factors in hepatocytes. Furthermore, in samples from CVD patients, the complement pathway was identified to be the top most downregulated by apabetalone treatment. This was supported by an observed reduction in the levels of complement proteins, which have been linked to cardiovascular disease and major adverse cardiac events (MACE). A reduction in the overall function of the complement cascade in plasma from cardiovascular disease patients treated with apabetalone was also presented.

About Resverlogix 

Resverlogix is developing apabetalone (RVX-208), a first-in-class, small molecule that is a selective BET (bromodomain and extra-terminal) inhibitor. BET bromodomain inhibition is an epigenetic mechanism that can regulate disease-causing genes. Apabetalone is the first and only BET inhibitor selective for the second bromodomain (BD2) within the BET protein called BRD4. This selective inhibition of apabetalone on BD2 produces a specific set of biological effects with potentially important benefits for patients with diseases such as high-risk cardiovascular disease (CVD), diabetes mellitus (DM), chronic kidney disease, Alzheimer's disease, Orphan diseases, and peripheral artery disease, while maintaining a well described safety profile. Apabetalone is the only selective BET bromodomain inhibitor in human clinical trials, currently in a Phase 3 trial BETonMACE in high-risk CVD patients with type 2 DM and low high-density lipoprotein (HDL).

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