MONTVALE, N.J., Feb. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Memory Pharmaceuticals Corp. today announced that the Company has completed dosing in its Phase 1 study of MEM 3454, a partial agonist of the nicotinic alpha-7 receptor, in healthy volunteers.
"The data from this trial will provide us with critical safety and dosing information about MEM 3454 and insights into the appropriate clinical development path for this drug candidate," said David A. Lowe, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer of Memory Pharmaceuticals. "We look forward to reporting the top-line results from this trial in the second quarter of 2006."
The Phase 1 single-center study consisted of four segments: a double-blind, placebo-controlled study to evaluate the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of single ascending doses of MEM 3454, which involved 56 healthy young male volunteers; a standard food interaction study, which involved 12 volunteers; a single ascending dose study, which involved 15 elderly volunteers; and a multiple ascending dose (MAD) study, which involved 48 healthy young male and female volunteers. The MAD study included cognition testing using the Cognitive Drug Research (CDR) battery. The study was conducted in Toronto, Canada, under a Clinical Trial Application that Memory Pharmaceuticals filed with Health Canada.
Under the terms of Memory Pharmaceuticals' 2003 collaboration with Roche, Memory Pharmaceuticals leads the development of MEM 3454 through Phase 2a clinical trials, and following the completion of these trials, Roche has the right to obtain an exclusive license to MEM 3454. Roche may maintain its right through the development process by making payments to Memory Pharmaceuticals upon its achievement of certain pre-established development milestones.
The nicotinic alpha-7 receptor is a highly specialized receptor found in the central nervous system. Compounds acting on this receptor could be beneficial in the treatment of schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease, as well as other psychiatric and neurological disorders.
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Memory Pharmaceuticals Corp., a biopharmaceutical company, is focused on developing innovative drugs for the treatment of debilitating CNS disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, vascular dementia, mild cognitive impairment, Parkinson's disease and memory impairments associated with aging. For additional information, please visit our website at http://www.memorypharma.com/.
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