AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- XBiotech (NASDAQ: XBIT) announced today data that it is halting its clinical program in rheumatological disease while it seeks to understand the outcome from its recently completed Phase II, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Randomized study in Rheumatoid Arthritis. The Phase II study failed to meet its primary endpoint amid substantial irregularities that make unequivocal... Read More

AUSTIN, Texas, June 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- XBiotech (NASDAQ: XBIT) announced today data from its Phase 1/Phase 2 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled multi-center study for advanced pancreatic cancer. Known as 1-BETTER, the study examined Natrunix (anti-interleukin-1alpha) antibody in combination with an... Read More

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- XBiotech Inc. today announced that it plans to expand it’s campus headquarters with the construction of a new, state-of-the-art research and development facility. XBiotech has received City of Austin approval to begin excavation for site preparation and groundwork is expected to... Read More

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- XBiotech (NASDAQ: XBIT) today announced that Alan Kivitz M.D. is now Lead Investigator & Study Chairman for its clinical research program for Natrunix in Rheumatoid Arthritis. XBiotech believes Natrunix will be a breakthrough therapy for rheumatological diseases. The company has now enrolled about 33% of the 210 patients it is recruiting for a Phase II, Double-Blind,... Read More

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- XBiotech Inc. (NASDAQ: XBIT) Announces that Hutrukin is being developed by XBiotech as a breakthrough therapy to reduce brain injury after stroke. The last subject in a randomized, open-label, placebo-controlled Phase I dose escalation clinical study has been enrolled. XBiotech discovered, manufactures, and is conducting this clinical study of Hutrukin. The primary objective... Read More

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- XBiotech Inc. announced today completion of enrollment of the Phase II portion of its 1-BETTER study—a Phase I/II randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical study for Natrunix in combination with chemotherapy for treating pancreatic cancer. Natrunix is indistinguishable from a naturally occurring antibody present in a healthy human. Natrunix binds and neutralizes a... Read More

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- XBiotech Inc. (NASDAQ: XBIT) today began treating the first patient in a phase II, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical study to evaluate Natrunix as a new treatment for Arthritis. Natrunix blocks a key cause of inflammation involved in pain and joint destruction in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The primary endpoint of the Phase II is the American College of... Read More

AUSTIN, Texas, May 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- XBiotech Inc. (NASDAQ: XBIT) today reports that the FDA’s Division of Rheumatology has authorized the Company to initiate a Phase II clinical study to test Natrunix™ as a treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis. The randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, trial will examine the effectiveness of Natrunix to treat rheumatoid arthritis compared to placebo in subjects already... Read More

AUSTIN, Texas, May 17, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Xbiotech Inc. (NASDAQ: XBIT) (“Xbiotech”) announced today that it commenced a “modified Dutch auction” issuer tender offer to purchase up to $80,000,000 in value of its common shares, or such lesser number of common shares as are properly tendered and not properly withdrawn, at a price not greater than $4.00 nor less than $3.80 per common share, to the seller in cash, less any... Read More

AUSTIN, Texas, April 17, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- XBiotech Inc. (NASDAQ: XBIT) has enrolled the first subject in a randomized, open-label, placebo-controlled dose escalation clinical study to evaluate safety and pharmacokinetics of Hutrukin. Hutrukin is being developed as a novel treatment to reduce brain injury following ischemic stroke. There are more than 10 million ischemic strokes each year—the leading cause of death... Read More