NeuroVive Pharmaceutical AB Signs Mitochondrial Medicine Research Agreement With Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
January 23, 2017 at 02:41 am EST
NeuroVive Pharmaceutical AB announced that NeuroVive has signed a preclinical collaboration agreement with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Marni J. Falk, M.D., a US key opinion leader in the mitochondrial medicine field. Dr. Falk's research team at CHOP will evaluate compounds from NeuroVive's research program, NVP015, in certain experimental disease models. The research team will study energy metabolism and disease development in models of mitochondrial complex I dysfunction. Marni J. Falk. is an attending physician and director of the Mitochondrial Disease Clinical Center at CHOP, US, which is a large center for children and adults with mitochondrial disorders and a leading mitochondrial disease research center.