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Article: Napo Acquires Rights to Additional CFTR Technology.
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- Technology Business Journal
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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Napo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has in-licensed from the University of California Regents additional small-molecule cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) inhibitor technology including gastrointestinal (GI) and polycystic kidney disease (PKD) indications. PKD, a leading cause of end-stage renal disease and kidney transplants, affects approximately 600,000 people in the United States, and 12.5 million worldwide, according to the PKD Foundation.
Napo's collaborator, Alan Verkman, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Department of Medicine, was recently awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) challenge grant to ...