Laurent Pharmaceuticals announces initiation of a Phase 1 clinical study of Fenretinide in Cystic Fibrosis
MONTREAL, QC, Canada - May 20, 2014
Laurent Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced today that the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) has started enrolling patients in an investigator-initiated clinical trial evaluating the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of a novel oral formulation of Fenretinide in adult subjects with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung colonization. The study will be conducted at the Montreal Chest Institute at the MUHC in Montréal, with financial support from McGill University, MSBi Valorisation and Laurent Pharmaceuticals.