Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals Announces Theodore Liston, Ph.D., Vice President of Research, as Recipient of the 2022 Innovation and Progress Award from the Journal Stroke

Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals Inc., a private drug discovery and development company advancing novel cerebroprotective therapeutics for patients with brain injuries, today announced that Theodore Liston, Ph.D., Vice President of Research at Astrocyte, received the 2022 Progress and Innovation Award from the journal Stroke for authoring one of the journal’s top three publications in 2022. The Innovation and Progress Award recognizes research that demonstrates “a new approach, new methodology, new interpretation of existing data, or new data with far-reaching implications.” Dr. Liston’s manuscript, demonstrates that Astrocyte’s proprietary AST-004 drug candidate targeting adenosine A1/A3 receptors is significantly efficacious in a primate model of ischemic stroke designed to simulate a human stroke Phase 2 trial. Read more >>