{"id":47675,"date":"2003-06-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-12T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2003\/06\/12\/unmc-led-international-anti-malarial-drug-discoveryeffort-progresses-to-next-step-towards-clinical-trials\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T10:44:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T15:44:17","slug":"unmc-led-international-anti-malarial-drug-discoveryeffort-progresses-to-next-step-towards-clinical-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2003\/06\/12\/unmc-led-international-anti-malarial-drug-discoveryeffort-progresses-to-next-step-towards-clinical-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"UNMC-led international anti-malarial drug discovery\n\neffort progresses to next step towards clinical trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>Developing and moving a potential drug from research lab to pharmaceutical<\/p>\n<p>company is an undertaking fraught with potential failure at every turn.<\/p>\n<p>Enormous costs and time, with little or no prospect of return upon investment,<\/p>\n<p>can stop a project in its tracks.<\/p>\n<p>A University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy-led team<\/p>\n<p>of scientists has taken another step towards success with their new class<\/p>\n<p>of anti-malarial compounds. Recently at the World Economic Forum Headquarters<\/p>\n<p>at Cologny, Switzerland, Roche, a leading pharmaceutical and healthcare<\/p>\n<p>company, symbolically handed over the UNMC-led Synthetic Peroxide Project<\/p>\n<p>to Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd., Indias largest pharmaceutical company.<\/p>\n<p>Ranbaxy will carry out the development and file an investigational new<\/p>\n<p>drug application once it has established safety and effectiveness in pre-clinical<\/p>\n<p>phase. If the drug works as is hoped, it may treat malaria in three days<\/p>\n<p>at a cost much less than the commonly used Artemisinin derivatives.<\/p>\n<p>The UNMC-led team, which has been funded by Medicines for Malaria Venture<\/p>\n<p>(MMV) of Geneva, Switzerland, since 2001, is made up of scientists from<\/p>\n<p>the UNMC College of Pharmacy, Monash University in Australia, the Swiss<\/p>\n<p>Tropical Institute and the F. Hoffmann-LaRoche pharmaceutical company in<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland. It has received a patent on the compound and shares a four-year,<\/p>\n<p>$4.4 million grant funded by MMV.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-malarial drug compounds have been called spectacular by the<\/p>\n<p>World Health Organization. Drug company involvement moves the project from<\/p>\n<p>laboratory to technical and clinical development, said Jonathan Vennerstrom,<\/p>\n<p>Ph.D., associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences, UNMC College of<\/p>\n<p>Pharmacy and principal investigator of the MMV grant. Its a positive<\/p>\n<p>thing to see a pharmaceutical partner identified. One always hopes to get<\/p>\n<p>this far, Dr. Vennerstrom said. Its exciting for the group to get to<\/p>\n<p>this point.<\/p>\n<p>He said Ranbaxy will take the anti-malarial compound, now called a clinical<\/p>\n<p>candidate, and put it through a series of experiments  a battery of toxicity<\/p>\n<p>tests in animals  in preparation for clinical trials.<\/p>\n<p>I think everyone is eagerly anticipating if MMV can pull this off,<\/p>\n<p>said Dr. Vennerstrom, who has been studying malaria for 18 years and said<\/p>\n<p>he became aware of the disease while growing up in Ethiopia when his parents<\/p>\n<p>taught at mission schools. If all goes well, phase I clinical trials could<\/p>\n<p>begin as early as 2004. It depends on the results of the safety and tolerance<\/p>\n<p>of the drug.<\/p>\n<p>The research team continues to perfect the compounds in the lab and<\/p>\n<p>learn how the compound work.<\/p>\n<p>We still are working on a backup drug candidate if the first one fails,<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Vennerstrom said. We may have found something much better. It could<\/p>\n<p>have higher oral activity and could provide a cure at a lower dose that<\/p>\n<p>would reduce potential side effects. We are learning more as we get more<\/p>\n<p>feedback from animal studies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Synthetic Peroxide Project in 2001, the first new drug candidate<\/p>\n<p>to be entirely funded by MMV, was voted Project of the Year in 2001 by<\/p>\n<p>the MMVs Expert Scientific Advisory Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Though now the malaria epidemic seems like a world away, in places like<\/p>\n<p>Africa, Asia, Central and South America, the disease kills more than 1<\/p>\n<p>million people each year, most of them children and pregnant women, according<\/p>\n<p>to the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition, an estimated 300 to<\/p>\n<p>500 million new cases of malaria are diagnosed each year. More than 90<\/p>\n<p>percent of all malaria cases occur in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says malaria could<\/p>\n<p>re-emerge in the U.S. due to the malaria parasite building up resistance<\/p>\n<p>to current drugs, environmental changes and increased air travel. American<\/p>\n<p>travelers and military personnel who travel to countries where malaria<\/p>\n<p>is prevalent are at risk.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1840s, malaria was a major cause of 600 deaths among Mormons<\/p>\n<p>living in Omahas Florence area. In 1914, an estimated 600,000 cases of<\/p>\n<p>malaria occurred in the United States. Today, malaria is rare in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>due to urbanization, improved sanitation, housing, nutrition and living<\/p>\n<p>standards, as well as eradication of mosquitoes with insecticides beginning<\/p>\n<p>in the 1940s.<\/p>\n<p>Ranbaxy is the ideal partner to drive this project forward. The company<\/p>\n<p>has demonstrated skills and expertise to discover new molecules, and take<\/p>\n<p>them through the process of development and also conduct clinical trials<\/p>\n<p>to international standards, said Christopher Hentschel, chief executive<\/p>\n<p>officer, MMV. Their presence in several African countries makes them the<\/p>\n<p>right partner for MMV in achieving its mission to discover, develop and<\/p>\n<p>deliver medicines to the disease endemic countries, at affordable cost.<\/p>\n<p>Developing a new medicine for Malaria affords Ranbaxy an opportunity<\/p>\n<p>to provide better health care options in this segment, said D.S. Brar,<\/p>\n<p>chief executive officer and managing director, Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited,<\/p>\n<p>Indias largest pharmaceutical company. We are delighted to join hands<\/p>\n<p>with MMV in this venture to enhance our social responsibilities cause.<\/p>\n<p>MMV was officially launched in 1999 as a non-profit foundation dedicated<\/p>\n<p>to reducing the burden of malaria in disease endemic countries by discovering<\/p>\n<p>new affordable anti-malarials through effective public-private partnership.<\/p>\n<p>MMV in its three years of operation is managing a portfolio of over 14<\/p>\n<p>Projects in different stages of Drug Research and Development.<\/p>\n<p>It receives funding and support from the following organizations: Bill<\/p>\n<p>and Melinda Gates Foundation, ExxonMobil Corporation, Global Forum for<\/p>\n<p>Health Research, International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers<\/p>\n<p>Associations, Netherlands Minister for Development Cooperation, Rockefeller<\/p>\n<p>Foundation, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, United Kingdom<\/p>\n<p>Department for International Development, World Bank, World Health Organization,<\/p>\n<p>Roll Back Malaria, UNDP\/World Bank\/WHO Special Programme for Research and<\/p>\n<p>Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), The Wellcome Trust.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about MMV, go to www.mmv.org<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developing and moving a potential drug from research lab to pharmaceutical company is an undertaking fraught with potential failure at every turn. 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