UNITY Biotechnology Provides Pipeline and Business UpdatesFebruary 25, 2020UNITY Biotechnology, Inc. (UNITY) [NASDAQ:UBX], a biotechnology company developing therapeutics to extend healthspan by slowing, halting or reversing diseases of aging, today provided pipeline and business updates.UNITY’s lead ophthalmology candidates, UBX1325 and UBX1967, are currently in the final phases of Investigational New Drug (IND) enabling non-clinical toxicology studies. Both senolytic molecules are inhibitors of particular members of the Bcl-2 family of apoptosis regulatory proteins which have shown distinct pharmacokinetic profiles in preclinical studies. UNITY intends to complete IND-enabling studies for both molecules prior to selecting the first molecule to advance to a first-in-human study to explore safety and tolerability of this novel mechanism of action for age-related eye diseases. UNITY expects to initiate a Phase 1 safety study for this program in the second half of 2020. The overall clinical program is directed at multiple age-related diseases of the eye, such as age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema.