ANEW MEDICAL, INC. (“ANEW” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: WENA)
announced the signing of an exclusive worldwide license agreement
with Transfertech Sherbrooke (“TTS”) regarding
Nanoject, a needle-free, freeze-dried nanopowder
autoinjector for medicines and vaccines.
Needle phobia and injection or blood-drawing
anxiety are prevalent among adults and children, creating barriers
to adhering to doctor visits and medication protocols. Alternatives
to needle/syringes have been introduced including creams, patches,
inhalers, liquid autoinjectors, but they have significant cost and
formulation limitations for topical applications.
The patented
Nanoject core delivery device
exploits the pressure-driven flow generated by the triggering of a
miniature shock tube to “shoot” nano-sized or micron-sized
particles of medicine (drugs, proteins, DNA, RNA) at high speed
(600 meters/second) into the skin for intradermal and subcutaneous
tissue delivery.
Dr. Joseph Sinkule, the CEO, Chairman and
Founder of ANEW, stated: “ANEW continues to evaluate opportunities
that can generate near-term revenue for the Company, and we utilize
our expertise to develop new and novel patented technologies for
medical product development – medical products that are urgently
needed in the treatment of human diseases. Our early-stage human
Klotho gene therapy program is advancing quite well, however we
have been looking for assets that may bring in revenue much earlier
than the Klotho neurosciences programs. The nanoparticle injector
is quite unique, is patent-protected, and will become a major
advance in drug delivery. The dry powder nanoparticles of drugs,
proteins and DNA/RNA offer numerous advantages over liquid drug
solutions such as improved storage at room temperatures, better
long-term stability, and novel programmed time-released
formulations. We are planning to offer two formats: a single-use
disposable device that you can toss in a normal trash bin after
administration, and a re-usable, multi-dose device for repeated
use.” Dr. Sinkule continues, “Accurate and reproducible dose
delivery at targeted skin depths can be controlled by nanoparticle
size and shape, particle density, formulation excipients and
velocity (gas-powered delivery). Our collaborators at TTS and the
Université de Sherbrooke bring to the table a family of issued US
and international patents and decades of knowhow which provide
protection from competition.”
ANEW’s CFO, Jeffrey LeBlanc, stated: “We are
developing a patented, low-cost method to deliver medicines to
patients that are needle free and pain free, which will improve the
quality of life for patients receiving hypodermic needle and
syringe-administered medicines and vaccines. We will focus on
several key therapeutic areas, including drugs for pain, fertility
medicines, growth hormones, erectile dysfunction, and vaccines. We
will develop and market our own products, but also work with pharma
partners to launch novel patent-protected versions of their drugs
via supplemental NDAs.”
Eric Boyd, the Managing Director for the
Nanoject business unit, will manage general
operations and key partnerships, including the licensing alliance
with TTS and Dr. Martin Brouillette’s lab at the Université de
Sherbrooke. Mr. Boyd, having over 35 years of experience advising
public and private companies, stated: “No one likes needles, and
more than 16 billion injections a year are given in the US and
Canada. Hypodermic needle injections are painful, generate
dangerous and costly medical waste, and can cause infection and
contamination risks to patients. There are patients with chronic
conditions that require frequent, often self-administered
injections like insulin or fertility meds. This technology is ideal
for self-administration.”
Michel Lambert, the CEO and President of TTS,
stated: “We are pleased to place this important technology in the
hands of experts in this field and we look forward to the close
interaction of the Company with the inventor, Professor Dr. Martin
Brouillette, and the Université de Sherbrooke.”
About TTS and
Université de Sherbrooke. TTS is a limited
partnership having its head office at 35 Radisson Street, Office
200, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, J1L 1E2, acting and represented by
its General Partner, GESTION SOCPRA SCIENCES ET GÉNIE
INC. The Université de Sherbrooke is a world-renowned
French-language public research University in Sherbrooke, Quebec,
Canada. TTS is the University’s external technology transfer
office.
About ANEW MEDICAL, INC. ANEW
MEDICAL, INC. (Nasdaq: WENA) is a technology and medical product
development company focused on the development of therapeutics and
diagnostics for a broad range of chronic and life-threating disease
indications. ANEW’s current portfolio consists of its proprietary
gene therapy program using DNA and RNA as therapeutics and
diagnostics. Other assets include clinical-stage programs involving
antibody biologics targeting cancer and autoimmune diseases, and
drug delivery via a needle-free dry powder jet autoinjector called
Nanoject.
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contact:
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