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Home » Oricula Therapeutics secures NIH grant to preserve hearing

Oricula Therapeutics secures NIH grant to preserve hearing

May 2, 2014
CenterWatch Staff

Oricula Therapeutics, a biotech company introducing medicines to preserve hearing, has received a grant of $169,398 through the Small Business Innovation Research Program by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders of the NIH.

The award supports preclinical studies to confirm that Oricula's new chemical entities are both safe and effective for hearing protection. When complete, the results will form the basis for an FDA IND application to allow phase I clinical trials to proceed. If successful, Oricula's product will be the first medicine to be FDA-approved to protect the inner ear against antibiotic complications.

Oricula Therapeutics secured the grant to continue current research in therapeutics that effectively protect the hair cells in the inner ear from damage or death caused by certain antibiotics, specifically aminoglycosides (AGs). The funded research has two primary objectives: 1) Using different strains of bacteria, confirm that the chemical entities do not interfere with the bactericidal effectiveness of the antibiotics and do not cause bacteria to mutate; and 2) Evaluate the safety and tolerability of the lead entity in mammals at specific dosage levels.

Oricula Therapeutics has focused its research on protecting hearing from damage caused by AGs, an inexpensive and effective antibiotic. Despite the known side effect of potential hearing damage, AGs are important for the treatment of a variety of serious infectious diseases including septicemia, multiple drug resistant TB and pseudomonas infection in patients with cystic fibrosis. However, because as many as 20% of patients treated with AGs develop measurable, irreversible hearing loss or even deafness, AGs have become a treatment of last resort. A medicine to effectively protect hearing, reducing or eliminating this safety concern, would open the door to broader worldwide use of this class of antibiotics.

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