CUMBERLAND PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. — Department of Health and Human Services STTR Phase I: DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is an urgent, unmet need for novel therapeutic
CUMBERLAND PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. — STTR Phase I award from Department of Health and Human Services.
- Amount
- $224,910
- Agency
- Department of Health and Human Services · National Institutes of Health
- Program / Phase
- STTR · Phase I
- Solicitation
- PA13-235
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- TN
- Period
- —
Description
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is an urgent, unmet need for novel therapeutic approaches that are efficacious against lung cancer. Ranking first among cancer deaths in the U.S., this disease has 5-year relative survival rates of lt20%. Most lung cancers are non-small cell (NSCLC, 85% of cases). Curative surgery is not an option for the 80% of NSCLC patients who present with advanced stage III cancer. For these patients chemo/radiation therapy remains the standard of care, and presently there isno effective strategy to improve radiation therapy outcomes. The central innovative theme of the proposed research is: a newly identified chemical entity YTR107 sensitizes human tumor cells to the lethal effects of ionizing radiation. YTR107 is efficacious in genetically diverse tumor types because its novel intracellular target plays a key role in homologous recombination, a critical DNA repair pathway utilized by dividing cells, including proliferative tumor cells. Targeting a key component of the DN