NanoViricides (NYSE American: NNVC), a development-stage company that is creating special purpose nanomaterials for antiviral therapy, today announced that it has executed a broad Memorandum of Understanding (“MoU”) agreement with TheraCour Pharma Inc., an R&D firm, signed on September 23, 2024. As a result, the company has now obtained a right of first refusal (“ROFR”) for all antiviral drug developments from TheraCour. According to the announcement, the MoU encompasses all antiviral drug developments and is a crucial step that provides NanoViricides with certain intellectual property rights for developing treatments against any viral infections.
The announcement noted that the MoU enables NanoViricides to quickly and easily discover an increasing number of antiviral indications of NV-387, its lead broad-spectrum drug, and add them to its portfolio of drugs in its development pipeline. In addition, the agreement expands the company’s ability to opportunistically and rapidly develop certain “Trojan Horse” nanoviricide drugs to treat viral infections of public importance. The MoU also codifies how NanoViricides and TheraCour negotiate licenses to specific antiviral fields.
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About NanoViricides Inc.
NanoViricides is a development-stage company that is creating special purpose nanomaterials for antiviral therapy. The company’s novel nanoviricide(TM) class of drug candidates and the nanoviricide(TM) technology are based on intellectual property, technology and proprietary know-how of TheraCour Pharma, Inc. The company has a Memorandum of Understanding with TheraCour for the development of drugs based on these technologies for all antiviral infections. The MoU does not include cancer and similar diseases that may have viral origin but require different kinds of treatments. The company has obtained broad, exclusive, sub-licensable, field licenses to drugs developed in several licensed fields from TheraCour Pharma, Inc. The company’s business model is based on licensing technology from TheraCour Pharma Inc. for specific application verticals of specific viruses, as established at its foundation in 2005. NanoViricides’ lead drug candidate is NV-387, a broad-spectrum antiviral drug that the company plans to develop as a treatment of RSV, COVID-19, Long COVID, influenza, and other respiratory viral infections, as well as MPOX/Smallpox infections. The company is currently focused on advancing NV-387 into Phase II human clinical trials. NanoViricides’ other advanced candidate is NV-HHV-1 for the treatment of Shingles. The company cannot project an exact date for filing an IND for any of its drugs because of dependence on a number of external collaborators and consultants. NV-CoV-2 (“API NV-387”) is the company’s nanoviricide drug candidate for COVID-19 that does not encapsulate remdesivir. NV-CoV-2-R is NanoViricides’ other drug candidate for COVID-19 that is made up of NV-387 with remdesivir encapsulated within its polymeric micelles. For more information about the company, visit www.NanoViricides.com.
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