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Trophos gets EUR6m from EU for novel cardioprotective compound study

Trophos has received an award of EUR6m from the European Union (EU) to support MitoCare - an international, translational medicine project evaluating a novel cardioprotective compound.

MitoCare will begin in January 2011 and will be conducted by a 16 partner consortium led by Trophos.

MitoCare will evaluate the safety and efficacy of TRO40303 in a Phase II proof-of-concept study to treat cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) in acute myocardial infarction (MI) patients.

The study will also develop knowledge of biomarkers and models of cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury.

The study will involve acute MI patients with large myocardial infarct undergoing coronary angioplasty, who will be administered with TRO40303 as a single IV infusion prior to the reperfusion by angioplasty.

TRO40303 is the second of Trophos’ proprietary cholesterol oxime mitochondrial pore modulators, whose mechanism of action involves prevention of stress-induced mitochondrial permeability transition, a target implicated in cardiac reperfusion injury.