PaxMedica Receives Emergency Request for IV Suramin from African Health Ministry for Use in Treating Fatal Sleeping Sickness
TARRYTOWN, New York, April 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via IBN -- PaxMedica , Inc. (NASDAQ: PXMD ), a biopharmaceutical company focused on advancing treatments for neurological disorders, today announced it has received an urgent request from the Ministry of Health (MOH) of Malawi, asking for emergency access to IV suramin to avert a potential humanitarian crisis brought on by dwindling supplies of drugs used routinely to save lives in that region of Africa.
- TARRYTOWN, New York, April 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via IBN -- PaxMedica , Inc. (NASDAQ: PXMD ), a biopharmaceutical company focused on advancing treatments for neurological disorders, today announced it has received an urgent request from the Ministry of Health (MOH) of Malawi, asking for emergency access to IV suramin to avert a potential humanitarian crisis brought on by dwindling supplies of drugs used routinely to save lives in that region of Africa.
- PaxMedica, which just last week announced that it has completed execution of its three pivotal registration/validation batches of PAX-101 (an IV form of suramin), has brought this emergency request to the attention of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to determine potential impact, if any, on the ongoing development program and NDA submission plans for PAX-101.
- PaxMedica has previously announced the completion of its recent Type B meeting with FDA in preparation for submitting an NDA for the use of PAX-101 in the treatment of the rare and fatal trypanosomal infection, Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, caused by the bite of a tsetse fly.
- ( PaxMedica - A Promising Path in Autism ) “Having the highest incidence of TBr HAT in the world, the Malawi Ministry of Health enabled PaxMedica to conduct the first and only analysis of efficacy in the actual setting where historically the vast majority of these infections have been successfully treated”, said Weisman.