tiakis receives GLP Certificate from Competent Authority
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February 2019 –
tiakis BIOTECH AG today announced that the competent Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) Monitoring Authority of the German State of Schleswig-Holstein (State Office for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas of the Land Schleswig-Holstein) has performed a GLP inspection resulting in the confirmation that tiakis test site is able to conduct the archiving of documents related to in-house development products in compliance with the Principles of GLP. The establishment of a GLP quality management system is supported by a BFEI grant from the German State of Schleswig-Holstein.
About tiakis Elafin clinical development program
tiakis biopharmaceutical drug candidate Elafin promises an excellent therapeutic benefit risk profile for the use as an anti-inflammatory and tissue protective drug. Elafin is identical to the human protein elafin with high specificity for tissue destroying and inflammation promoting proteases. The development program of Elafin is focused on the late stage development of Elafin in major surgery and early stage development in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Elafin has received orphan drug designations in the USA and the EU for esophageal cancer surgery (ECS) and PAH. So far, there were no safety concerns after the treatment of 75 patients in three randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials. Postoperative complications in major surgery are the most significant independent risk factor leading to high morbidity and hospital readmissions. Following the completion of two Phase II surgery trials in ECS and coronary artery bypass graft surgery, and a final European Medicines Agency advice letter, a European pivotal trial with Elafin in ECS is in preparation. Treatment of patients undergoing ECS resulted in a significantly shorter intensive care unit stay and a positive postoperative effect on liver and kidney markers. Treatment of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery resulted in a postoperative reduction of the heart damage marker troponin I. In models of PAH it was shown that Elafin reverses obliterative changes in arteries of lung explants from PAH patients and that treatment with Elafin leads to the regression of pulmonary vascular lesions in rats. PAH is still a fatal disease with high medical need for therapies that stop disease progression. A Phase I trial in the US with subcutaneously administered Elafin is planned to commence with recruitment in 2019.
About tiakis
tiakis focuses on the discovery and development of therapeutic solutions based on its innovative biopharmaceutical Elafin for life threatening surgeries and life-threatening diseases such as PAH. tiakis seeks partners and investors for the development, commercial scale manufacturing, marketing and distribution of the product. The company tiakis BIOTECH AG is located in Kiel, Germany (www.tiakis.de).
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tiakis BIOTECH AG
Sophienblatt 40
24103 Kiel
Germany
phone: +49 431 8888-462
fax: +49 431 8888-463
email: info@tiakis.bio