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The Oxford BioPharma process of Discover - Assimilate - Integrate –
Protect, has been successfully applied with a client company and
resulted in the company filing for a use patent for a particular class
of drugs (known to be clinically active) that hadn’t previously been
associated with this particular disease process which harbours
considerable clinical need.
In collaboration with the client we were able to interpret previously
published data in a novel way (Discover) that indicated that a
particular class of receptor was directly involved in a biochemical
pathway that was well known (Assimilate). This pathway had previously
been shown to be critical to a particular human biological process.
Combining this information with a collection of data from both the
scientific literature and clinical reports, lead us to the conclusion
that blockade of the identified receptor class would prevent
activation of this pathway in the disease situation (Integrate). As
particular examples of this class of drug had previously been used in
a variety of clinical situations it was understood that they would be
well tolerated in humans and be relatively free of serious side
effects especially in the sub group of patients under consideration.
Oxford BioPharma has subsequently helped the client to prepare a
patent filing for the use of compounds which block this particular
receptor class in this disease situation (Protect).
While this information is presented with permission, client
confidentiality precludes Oxford BioPharma from releasing specific
details of this project until the results of the formal patent
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