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Bionow Award

The Bionow Project of the Year Award was presented last night to a project that has demonstrated a major step forward in research and generated intellectual property or demonstrated an innovative and novel approach to a problem.

Congratulations to the Nevrargenics Durham team, CEO Prof Andy Whiting, and our colleagues in Aberdeen, Liverpool and King’s College. London. Nevrargenics Ltd is a UK-based neuroscience company spun out of Durham University, specialising in the discovery and development of novel medicines (Retinoic acid Receptor-Modulators, RAR-Ms) for Healthy Ageing and neurodegenerative diseases. The MHRA has approved the protocol to clinically investigate the effects of the lead Nevrargenics drug, Ellorarxine, in ALS/FTD, which currently has no effective intervention. 

For more information on Nevrargenics please contact Professor Ehmke Pohl (Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer.  (www.nevrargenics.com). 

Please also find a link to the paper describing the design, synthesis and characterisation to DC645 or Ellorarxine  https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.5c00934