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we believe the impact of Kevetrin when administered to patients with repeated dosing (3 times per week), as planned in the upcoming ovarian cancer trial, will achieve fairly steady levels of Kevetrin above the MEC. The sustained activation/modulation of p53 will modulate multiple signaling pathways and should substantially increase its therapeutic efficacy. As noted above, Kevetrin is administered as an intravenous therapy (IV). The Company is now researching other formulations (e.g., oral).
So much for the bashers who claimed that the company was abandoning Kevetrin.
In 2012, we entered into an agreement with BIDMC, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, on an innovative research project with Kevetrin. BIDMC wishes to exploit the nuclear and/or mitochondrial pro-apoptotic function of p53 in melanoma and renal cell carcinoma, two types of cancer that are particularly resistant to therapy. We anticipate engaging in advanced discussions with the hospital when we have more resources as to the logistics and costs, net of grants, to move this project forward into Phase 2 studies of renal cell carcinomas.
Did we know this?
In October 2015, we were advised by the Principal Investigator [from the U of Bologna] that there are difficulties with the funding in Italy and he asked whether we would be interested in contributing financially to the study. We have requested budgets and timelines to help us with the decision making process as we are interested in engaging in clinical trials for the use of Kevetrin in leukemias. We intend to address this potential project once we are engaged in the ovarian cancer study and have available to us additional capital and resources.
wait -- what? once the ovarian cancer trial has started they expect to have additional capital? From what? A partnership? Or? ? ? ?