 LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Feb. 08, 2021 GLOBE NEWSWIRE -- AC Immune SA NASDAQ: ACIU, a Swiss-based, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with a broad pipeline focused on neurodegenerative diseases, today announced that the first patient has been scanned in a first-in-human study of its novel diagnostic agent for Parkinsons disease PD. ACI-12589 is a next-generation positron emission tomography PET imaging tracer that has shown significant potential to reliably detect and map deposits of pathological alpha-synuclein protein in the brain, which is the major hallmark of PD. AC Immune expects to report the results of the study in Q3 2021. The clinical study is supported by the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinsons Research MJFF, building on The Foundations significant funding of AC Immunes program since 2015. 