REVERAGEN BIOPHARMA, INC. — Department of Health and Human Services STTR Phase I: ? DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Glucocorticoids (e.g. prednisolone) are prescri
REVERAGEN BIOPHARMA, INC. — STTR Phase I award from Department of Health and Human Services.
- Amount
- $225,000
- Agency
- Department of Health and Human Services · National Institutes of Health
- Program / Phase
- STTR · Phase I
- Solicitation
- PA14-072
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- MD
- Period
- —
Description
? DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Glucocorticoids (e.g. prednisolone) are prescribed frequently to treat inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Despite effectiveness, adverse side effects believed to be caused by GRE-mediated transcriptional propertieslimit long term use of glucocorticoids in IBD patients. Furthermore, these GRE-mediated transcriptional activities have been previously shown to be responsible for glucocorticoid-induced impaired healing of the intestinal epithelium. This may explain whyglucocorticoids do not appear to be effective in maintaining remission of disease. ReveraGen BioPharma has identified a novel dissociative steroidal compound (VBP15) designed that retains the anti-inflammatory efficacy of traditional steroids (via NFkB inhibition), but has lost GRE-mediated transcriptional activities. VBP15 treatment has been shown to reduce inflammatory activity in vivo in multiple models of disease including the TNBS-induced mouse model of colitis (preliminary data) and result in a much m