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Suven Life's NCEs for neurodegenerative diseases receive European & Hong Kong patents

Our Bureau, MumbaiThursday, May 14, 2015, 14:10 Hrs  [IST]

Suven Life Sciences Ltd (Suven), a Hyderabad-based biopharmaceutical company focussed on discovering, developing and commercialising novel pharmaceutical products, has received one  product patent from Europe (2758394) and another product patent from Hong Kong (1173140) corresponding to the New Chemical Entities (NCEs) for the treatment of disorders associated with neurodegenerative diseases.

The granted claims of the patents include the class of selective 5-HT compounds discovered by Suven and are being developed as therapeutic agents and are useful in the treatment of cognitive impairment associated with neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease, attention deficient hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Huntington’s disease, Parkinson and Schizophrenia.

With these new patents, Suven has a total of sixteen (16) granted patents from Europe and seventeen (17) product patents from Hong Kong. These granted patents are exclusive intellectual property of Suven and are achieved through the internal discovery research efforts. Products out of these inventions may be out-licensed at various phases of clinical development like at phase-I or phase-II.

“We are very pleased by the grant of these patents to Suven for our pipeline of molecules in CNS arena that are being developed for cognitive disorders with high unmet medical need with huge market potential globally” says Venkat Jasti, CEO of Suven.

 
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