IBN, a multifaceted communications organization engaged in connecting public companies to the investment community, is pleased to announce the release of the latest episode of The BioMedWire Podcast as part of its sustained effort to provide specialized content distribution via widespread syndication channels.
The BioMedWire Podcast features fast-paced interviews with experts guiding the next wave of pharmaceutical and biotech innovation. The latest episode features Rob Etherington, President and CEO of Clene Inc. (NASDAQ: CLNN), a late clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on improving mitochondrial health and protecting neuronal function to treat neurodegenerative diseases.
To begin the interview, Etherington discussed Clene’s mission, including its novel approach to the treatment of diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and multiple sclerosis (MS).
“Clene Inc. is focused entirely on improving mitochondrial health and protecting neuron function. This is a very important thing we can do to treat neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS, MS and Parkinson’s,” he said. “This is particularly topical today, because the World Health Organization is predicting that neurodegenerative diseases will become the second-most prevalent cause of death within the next two decades. We’re pioneering a very unique approach: the use of an oral suspension that patients can drink to treat the deficits that they might have if afflicted with one of these devastating neurodegenerative diseases.”
“ALS is historically known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, famously named after the baseball player who contracted it in the 1930s. From there, it took 60 years for the first ALS drug to be approved by the FDA. It was approved in 1995 and still remains today, nearly three decades later, the standard of care. There’s obviously a tremendous need for new drugs in ALS. In the case of multiple sclerosis, there are a lot of drugs that can treat MS, but they all do effectively the same thing: they tamp down the body’s immune response, so the body stops attacking itself. What they don’t do is improve function – the way patients move and walk and talk and think cognitively with MS.”
“To put it simply, our brains are about 3-5% of our body weight but consumes around 25% of our energy every day. Night and day, we are powering our central nervous system to help us move and walk and talk and eat and chew and breathe, but, in neurodegenerative diseases, the neuron loses the ability to talk to the muscles and enable us to do the things that we take for granted. What we’re doing is improving the vital dysfunction and the bioenergetic metabolite that our neurons rely upon to continue this function. Our drug enables the energetic capacity that those muscles require to function and, in the case of ALS, enables the main systems, primarily breathing, to be muscularly sustained so patients potentially have increased rates of survival, as our data suggests.”
Join IBN’s Carmel Fisher and Rob Etherington, President and CEO of Clene Inc., to learn more about the company’s development pipeline, including recent milestones from its VISIONARY-MS and REPAIR-MS clinical programs.
To hear the episode and subscribe for future podcasts, visit https://podcast.biomedwire.com
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