Grant ID | CP120014 |
Awarded On | March 29, 2012 |
Title | Expanding the Market and Success Rates for Myeloablative Cancer Treatments Using PUL-042, an Innate Immune Stimulant |
Program | Product Development Research |
Award Mechanism | Company Formation |
Institution/Organization | Pulmotect, Inc. |
Principal Investigator/Program Director | Brenton Scott |
Cancer Sites | Breast, Leukemia, Lymphoma, Ovary |
Contracted Amount | $7,126,398 |
Lay Summary |
Working closely with partners at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Texas A&M, and Baylor College of Medicine, Pulmotect is developing a novel, protectable technology to reduce the incidence of pneumonia in immunosuppressed cancer patients and significantly improve how cancer patients are treated. Our therapeutic product, PUL-042, is a combination of two stimulants that boost the lung's own defense mechanisms to create a broad protection against invading pathogens thereby reducing and preventing lung infection. Both cellular and live animal preclinical proof-of-concept experiments have been completed that validate this technology and support moving it forward into the clinic. It is in the most at... |