Chardan lowered the firm’s price target on Unity Biotechnology (UBX) to $4 from $6 and keeps a Buy rating on the shares after the company announced topline 24- and 36-week results from its Phase 2b ASPIRE study of the senolytic Bcl-xL inhibitor UBX1325 in diabetic macular edema. The study failed to meet its primary endpoint of non-inferiority to aflibercept, the analyst tells investors in a research note. The firm says the miss narrows the path forward For UBX1325.
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