A clinical trial with 149 patients suffering from the very disabling autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus, has shown the effectiveness of a synthetic peptide developed by a team of researchers led by CNRS biologist Slyviane Muller at the Institut de Biologie Moleculaire (IBMC) in Strasbourg, France.
The peptide, known as P140/LupuzorTM, is well tolerated by patients and leads to regression of the disease.
Under the CNRS patent, ImmuPharma-France, which funded the trial, has an exclusive license to use the peptide.
Now the final phase of clinical tests should soon confirm these results and contribute to the development of a drug without the side effects of existing treatments, which use cortico-steroids and immunosuppressants."
I have only been following the PYC forum for a short while, so I am not sure of the significance of this press release(dated Jan 2013).
Are you saying that the success of this trial at another organisation makes the PYC in-house lupus research redundant?
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