Organization (Industry)
Apellis Pharmaceuticals (United States)
ClinicalTrials.gov lists Apellis Pharmaceuticals (United States) as lead sponsor of 28 trials. It has 19 active development programs and 2 approved assets.
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Trials started per year with this organization as sponsor or collaborator, 1990 onward. The series also counts trials where the organization is a collaborator; the lead-sponsor trial count does not.
2026 is partial: 3 registered with a 2026 start date. The dashed outline is the pace from the 2 registered with a start date through September, planned starts included, not adjusted; not a forecast. No forecast is made for this organization: it averages 2.0 trial starts a year over the five years to September, under the 5 a year the method needs.
This page covers Apellis Pharmaceuticals (United States): 28 lead-sponsored trials and 2 legal-entity registrations.
Disease areas (22)
Shown in this order: most trials first.
| Disease area | Trials |
|---|---|
| Macular Degeneration | 8 |
| Anemia | 7 |
| Geographic Atrophy | 7 |
| Hemoglobinuria, Paroxysmal | 6 |
| Myelodysplastic Syndromes | 6 |
Showing 5 of 22 disease areas.
Trials by start year as sponsor or collaborator (10)
Shown in this order: most recent first. 2026 is partial: trials registered with a 2026 start date so far, not a full year.
Show the table of trials by start year as sponsor or collaborator
| Year | Trials started |
|---|---|
| 2026 (partial year) | 3 |
| 2025 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2 |
| 2022 | 3 |
| 2021 | 4 |
| 2020 | 2 |
| 2019 | 1 |
| 2018 | 8 |
| 2017 | 1 |
| 2015 | 4 |
Recruitment duration, a model prediction: none of the 28 trials evaluated at the 2026-10-09 snapshot is predicted and still running. Source: ClinicalTrials.gov / AACT (CTTI), public domain.
Active development programs (19)
Shown in this order: max phase, then active trials.
| Drug | Disease area | Max phase | Trials |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEGCETACOPLAN (APL-2) | Anemia | Phase 3 | 7 |
| PEGCETACOPLAN (APL-2) | Myelodysplastic Syndromes | Phase 3 | 6 |
| PEGCETACOPLAN (APL-2) | Hemoglobinuria, Paroxysmal | Phase 3 | 6 |
| PEGCETACOPLAN (APL-2) | Macular Degeneration | Phase 3 | 5 |
| PEGCETACOPLAN (APL-2) | Glomerulonephritis, Membranoproliferative | Phase 3 | 5 |
Showing 5 of 19 active programs.
Approved assets (2)
Shown in this order: max phase first.
| Drug | Trials |
|---|---|
| PEGCETACOPLAN (APL-2) | 23 |
| Eculizumab | 1 |
Sponsor delivery record (1)
Enrollment hit target: the share of this sponsor's lead-sponsored trials whose actual enrollment reached the planned enrollment. On time: the share whose actual primary completion date was no later than the planned date. Each share counts only trials where we observed an estimated figure before the actual one, and n is that number of trials. Below 5 trials the count is shown as a fraction, not a percentage.
| Enrollment | Timeline |
|---|---|
| 68% hit target (n=19) | 24% on time (n=17) |
Journals published in (32)
Shown in this order: most published in first.
| Journal | Publications |
|---|---|
| Advances in therapy | 4 |
| Ophthalmology and therapy | 4 |
| Blood advances | 3 |
| Journal of comparative effectiveness research | 3 |
| Ophthalmology | 3 |
Showing 5 of 32 journals.
US granted patents (1)
Patents are not classified by disease area in the source, so this is the organization's overall portfolio, not a split by disease.
| US patents granted | Granted in the last 5 years | Most recent grant |
|---|---|---|
| 30 | 13 | 2025-11-04 |
FDA inspection record (1)
| Latest classification | Inspections |
|---|---|
| NAI | 2 |
FDA recalls (1)
| Product | Classification | Initiated |
|---|---|---|
| Apellis Injection Kit 29g Injection Needle -single use intended to inject fluids into, or withdraw fluids from, parts of the body below the surface of the skin and either an 18-gauge or a 19-gauge 5 micron filter needle. Ref: IVT-KIT-29G | Class II | 2023-08-22 |
Manufacturing and distribution sites (1)
| Facility | Location | Regulators | Member organization |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apellis | Waltham, US | FDA |
Organization relationships (1)
| Related organization | Relationship | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Iqvia Holdings Inc. | Uses vendor | 1 |
Latest dated events (63)
Shown in this order: newest first.
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-12 | Trial started | Clinical trials (ClinicalTrials.gov) (ClinicalTrials.gov, U.S. National Library of Medicine; AACT database, Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI)) |
| 2026-06-15 | Trial started | Clinical trials (ClinicalTrials.gov) (ClinicalTrials.gov, U.S. National Library of Medicine; AACT database, Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI)) |
| 2026-05-18 | Trial started | Clinical trials (ClinicalTrials.gov) (ClinicalTrials.gov, U.S. National Library of Medicine; AACT database, Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI)) |
| 2025-11-04 | Patent granted | Granted US patents (PatentsView / USPTO) |
| 2025-10-24 | Trial started | Clinical trials (ClinicalTrials.gov) (ClinicalTrials.gov, U.S. National Library of Medicine; AACT database, Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI)) |
Showing 5 of 63 events.
Biomarker capability evidence (68)
Shown in this order: tier desc, then gene symbol.
| Gene | Role | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| ACE | Trial sponsor | Named in trial inclusion criteria |
| ACE | Trial sponsor | Named in trial inclusion criteria |
| ARC | Trial sponsor | Named in trial inclusion criteria |
| GLB1 | Trial sponsor | Named in trial inclusion criteria |
| HP | Trial sponsor | Named in trial inclusion criteria |
Showing 5 of 68 evidence rows.
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