Method to Identify Anti-Epileptic Targets and Drugs
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- Categories
- Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals
- Summary
- The invention is a two-step process/method to identify new targets and drugs to prevent and treat epilepsy. The first step is to identify targets for the disease through statistical analysis of human brain gene expression from patients with epilepsy vs. controls. The second step is to test drugs known to affect these targets in a novel animal model of epilepsy that focuses on interictal spiking.
This approach has already identified a potential drugable pathway that can be modified with existing drugs to treat the disease.
- File number
- 08-888
- Data
- Data is available upon completion of a confidentiality agreement.
- Publications
- A patent application will be filed on this invention. We are seeking partners to: 1) develop new drugs to novel epilepsy targets and/or; 2) repurpose existing drugs for an epilepsy indication.
- Contact
- Randy Ramharack
Technology Licensing Manager
Phone: 313-577-5541
Fax : 313-577-2814
randy.ramharack@wayne.edu