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16 Nov 2011

Concert Pharmaceuticals Collaborates with TRND for Schistosomiasis Treatment

Concert Pharmaceuticals and TRND will jointly work to advance Concert's deuterium-modified praziquantel program as a potential treatment for schistosomiasis.

US clinical stage biotech firm Concert Pharmaceuticals announced Tuesday that it has signed a research agreement with The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases (TRND) program to advance Concert's deuterium-modified praziquantel program as a potential treatment for schistosomiasis.

 

TRND will support the collaborative evaluation of Concert's deuterated compounds in a series of in vitro and in vivo preclinical studies and potentially through Phase 1 clinical testing.

 

The research program will be directed by a joint Concert-TRND steering committee.

 

"Our early research demonstrates that deuterium modification

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