Portuguese biotech firm seeks to launch Chinese drug to combat Parkinson’s

[Farooqji]

Portuguese pharmaceutical company Tecnophage intends to launch a supplement in Europe this year with “very promising” results in Parkinson’s disease, based on research from the University of Macau on a fruit used in traditional Chinese medicine. The company’s CEO Miguel Garcia has told Lusa Tecnophage is “in the last steps of toxicity tests of the molecule”, which should be completed “in the first quarter”. As for results so far, they show the supplement “could reduce the loss of memory and control of movement”, symptoms of “neurocognitive degeneration” caused by Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease.

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The molecule was isolated from “alpinia oxyphylla”, a small ginger-like fruit, which is used “not only in traditional Chinese medicine, but also, especially in the south, in Guangdong, as part of dietary therapy,” said Simon Lee.

Tests have shown that it can reduce memory loss and movement control, symptoms of “neurocognitive degeneration” caused not only by Parkinson’s disease, but also by Alzheimer’s disease, Simon Lee told Lusa.

The Chinese researcher explained that the option for a food supplement allows the product “to be on supermarket shelves earlier and to become better known.”

Miguel Garcia assured that Tecnophage’s ultimate goal is to launch a drug, but recalled that the approval process requires “a series of clinical trials” and therefore “takes many more years and a lot of money spent.”

In the ginger family

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpinia

[PDWarrior1900]

good post! thanks

[JakeMax]

thanks for the info. Keep us posted

[Rupa88]

Farooqji

Thanks a lot for the effort and the time you spend to keep the light at the end of tunnel alive❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[gregorio]

Please keep us updated, I have had a good look but cant find much more info, even on their own webpage