Plumb Pharmaceuticals LLC — Department of Health and Human Services SBIR Phase I: DESCRIPTION: In this proposal, Comfort Care for Animals LLC (CCA) (Madison, WI) will crea

Plumb Pharmaceuticals LLC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Health and Human Services.

Amount
$206,718
Agency
Department of Health and Human Services · National Institutes of Health
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase I
Solicitation
DA14-013
NAICS
Place of performance
WI
Period

Description

DESCRIPTION: In this proposal, Comfort Care for Animals LLC (CCA) (Madison, WI) will create slow-release (minimum 10-12 days in this Phase, with an ultimate goal of 28 days) injectable liposomal buprenorphine formulation to treat moderate to severe post-surgical or chronic pain in people and animals and to use as a treatment for opioid addiction in people. This innovative new drug-delivery system aims to address the widespread problem of providing long-term, non-divertible opioid pain relief for moderate to severe pain while also eliminating troughs in analgesia. We selected buprenorphine for this application because it is widely used as a maintenance therapy for opioid addiction, and as a treatment for surgical and chronic pain, but our novel delivery system should work with a large variety of additional drugs. This delivery system could provide reliable, long-duration analgesia or withdrawal symptom suppression from a single, monthly injection administered by trained medical professionals, removing a