Veru to Present at the GLP-1 Based Therapeutics Summit

MIAMI, FL, May 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Veru Inc. (NASDAQ: VERU), a late clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative medicines for preserving muscle for high quality weight loss, oncology, and viral induced acute respiratory distress syndrome, today announced that the Company has been invited to give a presentation at the GLP-1 Based Therapeutics Summit, taking place May 15-16, 2024, in Philadelphia, PA.

Presentation details:

Advancing Enobosarm, An Oral Novel Selective Androgen Receptor Modulator (SARM), to Avoid Muscle Loss and Augment Fat Loss When Combined with a Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist (GLP-1 RA) Drugs for Potentially Higher Quality Weight Loss
Date: Thursday, May 16, 2024
Start and end time: 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time

• Highlighting the concerns that (i) muscle loss caused by GLP-1 receptor agonists may be partly responsible for weight loss plateau, (ii) upon stopping GLP-1 RA, the fat and weight rebound regain, and (iii) such muscle loss may accelerate the development of frailty in at-risk older sarcopenic obese patients who are at risk for physical function limitations
• Presenting the 5 clinical studies of enobosarm in older patients and in patients with a cancer induced starvation-like state that provide a strong scientific rationale for the ongoing Phase 2b enobosarm + GLP-1 RA clinical study
• Providing supporting evidence that enobosarm in combination with a GLP-1 RA may potentially augment the fat reduction with higher quality total weight loss while preserving muscle and physical function
  

Additional information on the meeting can be found on the GLP-1 Based Therapeutics Summit website: https://glp-1-based-therapeutics.com/

About the Enobosarm Phase 2b clinical trial
The Phase 2b, multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized, dose-finding clinical trial was designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of enobosarm 3mg, enobosarm 6mg, or placebo as a treatment to preserve muscle and augment fat loss in approximately 90 patients with sarcopenic obesity or overweight elderly (>60 years of age) patients receiving semaglutide (Wegovy).The primary endpoint is difference in total lean body mass measured by DEXA, and the key secondary endpoints are differences in total body fat mass measured by DEXA and physical function as measured by stair climb test at 16 weeks. Topline clinical results from the trial are expected by the end of 2024.