NEW YORK and LONDON, May 19, 2016
Akari Therapeutics (NASDAQ: AKTX), an emerging growth, development-stage biopharmaceutical company, announced today that data on Coversin therapy in an eculizumab resistant paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) patient will be presented at the 21st European Hematology Association (EHA) Annual Congress taking place in Copenhagen from June 9-12. Coversin, Akari’s lead clinical product, is a second-generation complement inhibitor that acts on complement component-C5, preventing release of C5a and formation of C5b-9 (also known as the membrane attack complex or MAC).