BioCryst Announces Partnerships for Peramivir for Influenza Outsid...(uman Services (HHS)/Biomedical Advanced ...),Health

Date:9/15/2009

uman Services (HHS)/Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) contract awarded to BioCryst in 2007. BioCryst is currently in the process of obtaining the appropriate Health Authority and IRB/Ethics Committee approvals and is recruiting investigators in the U.S. and abroad. BioCryst plans to initiate enrollment of these trials once all approvals are granted and when we have secured sufficient funding to support their completion.

• Discussions between BioCryst and the U.S. Government are continuing regarding a number of issues including necessary funding from HHS/BARDA for these Phase 3 studies, a potential stockpiling order, and use of our excess peramivir active pharmaceutical ingredient (API).
  

About peramivir

Peramivir is an anti-viral agent that was discovered by BioCryst which inhibits the interactions of influenza neuraminidase, an enzyme which is critical to the spread of influenza within a host. In laboratory tests, peramivir has shown activity against pandemic H1N1 swine flu origin viral strains. Peramivir has been studied in patients with complicated and uncomplicated influenza. BioCryst's partner, Shionogi & Co., Ltd. is currently preparing to file for regulatory approval in Japan this year.

About BioCryst

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals designs, optimizes and develops novel small-molecule pharmaceuticals that block key enzymes involved in infectious diseases, cancer, and inflammatory diseases. BioCryst has discovered and progressed two novel compounds into late-stage pivotal clinical trials; peramivir, an anti-viral for influenza, and forodesine, a purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) inhibitor for cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL). Utilizing crystallography and structure-based drug design, BioCryst continues to discover additional compounds and to progress others thr
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