NeuCyte Licenses Promising Novel Compound for Treatment of Refractory Epilepsy and Related Neurological Disorders

NeuCyte, Inc., an innovative biotech company focused on developing novel treatments for neurological disorders, today announced that it has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Trillium Therapeutics to advance an undisclosed preclinical compound with potential utility in treating refractory epilepsy in the form of Dravet syndrome and related disorders. The compound covered by this agreement has demonstrated highly encouraging activity during studies conducted by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Epilepsy Therapy Screening Program (ETSP). It demonstrates a superior safety and anti-seizure efficacy profile over NINDS benchmark anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) in eleven animal models. It has also demonstrated broad efficacy in NIH animal studies for pharmaco-resistant epilepsy. As a result, this novel agent has gained the prestigious NINDS Red Book status and been selected as a promising lead drug candidate. "This compound is an exceedingly promising antiseizure drug which, although in preclinical development, is quite efficacious in a wide variety of highly predictive seizure models," said Roger J. Porter, MD, Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania, former Deputy Director of NINDS, former Chairman of the White House Committee on Brain and Behavioral Sciences, and former President of American Epilepsy Society. "It may prove very effective for patients with epilepsy." As a first-in-class compound with unique mechanism of action profiles, this drug candidate is likely to have activity across a variety of indications. The favorable efficacy and safety profile has also been validated by NeuCyte's proprietary in vitro human iPSC-derived models.

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