Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Jupiter Orphan Therapeutics, Inc. Enters into a Global Licensing Agreement with Murdoch Childrens Research Institute

Jupiter, FL (PRWEB) January 12, 2016

Jupiter Orphan Therapeutics, Inc. (JOT) today announced that they have entered into a global development and license agreement with Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Australia’s largest child health research institute. The agreement will see the parties jointly develop an appropriate delivery system and conduct clinical trials with the purpose of getting a product approved for the treatment of Friedreich’s Ataxia. The product, JOT101, will be a novel proprietary formulation developed by JOT utilising the active ingredient of resveratrol.


Indy drug firm Chondrial scores multi-million-dollar help from NIH Indy drug firm scores multi-million-dollar help from NIH

Indianapolis Business Journal, J.K. Wall, January 13, 2016


Chondrial, which is developing a drug for a rare condition known as Friedreich’s ataxia, will announce Wednesday that it has been accepted into a program run by the National Institutes of Health in which the NIH’s own researchers conduct tests on Chondrial’s drug and pay for outside contractors as needed.
Chondrial’s goal is to apply with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as early April to get approval for human testing of its drug.