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Alto Neuroscience Phase 2b trial of ALTO-100 for MDD fails primary endpoint
Alto Neuroscience, Inc.
- ALTO-100 did not show statistically significant improvement on MADRS vs placebo in biomarker-defined MDD patients.
- Favorable safety and tolerability; no new signals; common AEs headache, nausea, abnormal dreams at rates similar to placebo.
- ALTO-100 also in Phase 2b for bipolar depression; cash expected to fund operations into 2027 with other readouts in H1 2025.
- Company will analyze full dataset to determine next steps for ALTO-100 in MDD.