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Funds awarded for MS drug clinical trial

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:08 am
by MSUK
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Trophos has been awarded a €1 million (approximately $1.29 million) grant from the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) to support Translate-MS-Repair, a two-year collaborative R&D project that will evaluate the firm’s lead olesoxime candidate in a Phase Ib/IIa multiple sclerosis (MS) study.

The grant is the second awarded by the ANR and follows on from its support of the MS-Repair project, also led by Trophos, which evaluated olesoxime in a range of in vitro and in vivo MS models and demonstrated that the molecule is neuroprotective but can promote oligodentrocyte progenitor cells' maturation into myelinating oligodendrocytes.... Read More - http://www.msrc.co.uk/index.cfm/fuseact ... ageid/2479