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FDA Gives Clinical Trial Green Light on Drug to Treat Alzheimer's Disease
Date:4/22/2009

Previous Studies Show Bryostatin Protects Against Alzheimer's Protein, Rewires and Repairs Brain Damage

MORGANTOWN, W.Va., April 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (BRNI) the go-ahead to conduct Phase II clinical trials of Bryostatin for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease patients. The drug showed pre-clinical efficacy to not only treat Alzheimer's disease symptoms, but also its underlying causes.

"We are very excited about the FDA's agreement for BRNI to move forward with clinical trials," said Dr. Daniel Alkon, Scientific Director of BRNI. "Bryostatin shows the promise to repair and protect against neurodegeneration caused by Alzheimer's disease, stroke and other brain trauma, as well as enhance the brain's normal memory functions."

Bryostatin was originally created as an anti-cancer chemotherapy. When BRNI scientists extensively tested PKC activators against Alzheimer's disease models, they discovered the drug's hidden potential to stop Alzheimer's disease. Over the past six years, the drug has shown remarkable possibilities. In preclinical testing, BRNI scientists experimented with Bryostatin on three species of Alzheimer's disease transgenic mice, each species based on different human Alzheimer's disease genes. The test results revealed that Bryostatin, and a related class of drugs discovered at BRNI, can reduce the toxic Alzheimer's disease protein A Beta, restore lost synapses, and protect against the loss of memory functions. In related preclinical testing, Bryostatin has been shown to enhance and restore memory by rewiring connections in the brain previously destroyed by stroke, head trauma, or aging itself.

The Phase II trials, slated to begin in approximately two to four months, will test these preclinical findings on human Alzheimer's disease patients as well as controls, along with
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