A new drug for Alzheimer’s disease developed by Chinese researchers has won approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to undergo clinical trials on patients overseas.
Green Valley Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, one of the drug’s co-developers, put the notice of FDA authorization to administer the drug to humans on its website Sunday. The Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica under the Chinese Academy of Sciences confirmed it Tuesday in a statement.
The orally administered drug GV-971 was an achievement of a 22-year study led by researchers from the institute, Ocean University of China and Green Valley. According to an article published in the international journal Cell Research in September 2019, the drug, extracted from brown algae, works by modifying gut bacteria to ultimately reduce brain inflammation in mice that were genetically engineered to have the disease.
It was approved to market last November by China’s National Medical Products Administration, which said the drug “can improve cognition in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease (AD).”...
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