ImQuest Receives $6.4 M Five Year Award from NIH to Develop Long-Lasting Combination Topical Microbicides To Prevent HIV Tr... ( FREDERICK Md. Aug. 6 /- ImQuest B...)

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ImQuest Receives $6.4 M Five Year Award from NIH to Develop Long-Lasting Combination Topical Microbicides To Prevent HIV Transmission

Date:8/6/2008

FREDERICK, Md., Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- ImQuest BioSciences announced today the successful acquisition of funding from the National Institutes of Health to support the development of a long lasting, safe, and acceptable combination topical microbicide product. ImQuest and a consortium of microbicide researchers from four major U.S.-based universities will develop a highly innovative product from the portfolio of microbicides being developed by ImQuest, including the highly active dual-acting pyrimidinediones, the virus attachment and fusion inhibitor ISIS 5320, and the virus-inactivating NCp7-targeted thioesters. The $6.4 million award for studies to be performed in the Integrated Preclinical/Clinical Program for HIV Topical microbicides (IPCP-HTM), which is co-sponsored by the NIAID and DMID, will be led by Principal Investigator Robert W. Buckheit, Jr., Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of ImQuest. Other participating investigators include Dr. Patrick Kiser of The University of Utah, Dr. David Katz of Duke University, Dr. Kathleen Morrow of The Miriam Hospital/Brown University, and Drs. Lisa Rohan and Charlene Dezzutti of The University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Todd Parsley and Ms. Karen Watson of ImQuest will also play key roles in the performance of the program.

"This award forms the foundation of our efforts to develop a topical microbicide to reduce the incidence of sexual transmission of HIV, especially in the developing world where women now account for over 50% of people living with HIV and are in dire need of an effective microbicide product," said Dr. Buckheit. "It is our goal to develop a multi-product barrier for women that will inhibit several steps in the process of HIV infection, suppress the transmission of both wild type and resistant viruses, and which will only need to be applied once per week, or even once per month."

The IPCP-HTM project will focus on the development of ImQuest's portfolio of microbicide
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