trial to include additional sites, including at Columbia University Medical Center and Lighthouse International in New York, Scheie Eye Institute and Wills Eye Hospital in Pennsylvania, and Emory University and the Atlanta VA Rehabilitation Research and Development Center in Georgia.
Early next year, Stuart Fine at the Scheie Eye Institute in Philadelphia, D'Amato, and their colleagues will begin the first test of the drug's effectiveness in treating age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness in people over 64.
In this study, with lead investigator Kenneth Shindler, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania Scheie Eye Institute, we were able to show that SRT501 reduced the loss of retinal ganglion cells," says Peter Elliott, PhD, Sirtris Senior Vice President of Development.
Kenneth Shindler, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania Scheie Eye Institute and lead investigator, will present the data today at the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society annual meeting.
NASDAQ: SIRT), a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing small molecule drugs to treat diseases of aging, announced today that Kenneth Shindler, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania Scheie Eye Institute in Philadelphia, will present preclinical data at the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society annual meeting showing that SRT501, when orally administered, slows retinal ganglion cell loss during optic neuritis, a neurodegenerative eye disorder, and suppresses neurological dysfunction in a preclinical model of Multiple Sclerosis.
