Samaritan Pharma signs R&D deal

13 February 2006

Nevada, USA-based drugmaker Samaritan Pharmaceuticals says it has signed a licensing agreement with Georgetown University ,in Washington DC to license the latter's Spirostenols as a potential treatment for mitochondrial disorders.

Impairment of mitochondria, the primary cellular energy-generating organelle, is thought play a role in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis and conditions such as neuronal death induced by stroke. Samaritan says it will develop the licensed compounds to meet these types of illnesses.

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