
Apellis Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:APLS) shares are trading higher by 8.6% at $43.49 after the company announced Pegcetacoplan showed continuous and clinically meaningful effects at month 18 in Phase 3 Derby and Oaks studies for geographic atrophy.
Apellis Pharmaceuticals says, at month 18, Pegcetacoplan continued to demonstrate a favorable safety profile, consistent with safety at 12 months and longer-term exposure to intravitreal injections. The rate of infectious endophthalmitis was 0.044% per injection, and the rate of intraocular inflammation was 0.23% per injection.