SHAREHOLDER ALERT: Pomerantz Law Firm Investigates Claims On Behalf of Investors of Arbutus Biopharma Corporation - ABUS

NEW YORK, May 2, 2023

The investigation concerns whether Arbutus and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices. 

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On April 25, 2023, Arbutus issued a press release "announc[ing] that the Company was notified via verbal communication from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that the AB-101 Investigational New Drug (IND) application has been placed on clinical hold" and that "[t]he FDA indicated they will provide an official Clinical Hold letter to Arbutus within 30 days.  Arbutus stated that "[b]ased on this communication, the Company no longer intends to report initial data from the single-ascending dose portion of the Phase 1 clinical trial in the second half of 2023." 

On this news, Arbutus's stock price fell $0.36 per share, or 12.46%, to close at $2.53 per share on April 25, 2023.

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