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New Collaboration with Leading Researchers having Clinical Experience with Antimicrobials that are Biological Basis for Aganocide Compounds

EMERYVILLE, Calif., April 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NovaBay Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE Amex: NBY), a mid-stage biopharmaceutical company developing first-in-class, potent, well-tolerated products to treat and prevent a wide range of infections with low chance of developing drug resistance, today announced an exclusive agreement with Professors Markus Nagl M.D. and Waldemar Gottardi, Ph.D. of the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria. The agreement was entered into to advance the development of NovaBay's Aganocide compounds by integrating extensive and on-going clinical work at the university with NovaBay's development program.

Professors Gottardi and Nagl have conducted extensive clinical research and have patented and published widely for many years on the use of N-chlorotaurine (NCT), a natural antimicrobial produced by the body's white blood cells. NovaBay's Aganocide compounds are synthetic analogs of NCT that maintain or enhance the biological activity of the natural compound while adding pharmaceutically acceptable stability. Professors Gottardi and Nagl have pioneered the exploratory use of NCT compounds in humans in a number of indications that overlap with and even go beyond those for which NovaBay's Aganocide compounds are currently being developed.

Under the terms of the agreement, NovaBay will fund ongoing research in the laboratories of Professors Gottardi and Nagl at the Medical University of Innsbruck and NovaBay will have access to past and future data generated in human clinical trials by Professors Nagl, Gottardi and their collaborators. These data are expected to support many of the indications being pursued by NovaBay and its partners. For instan
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