Recently Medtronic, along with the Department of Veteran Affairs and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders, funded the largest clinical trial ever testing brain stimulation treatment (DBS) on Parkinson’s patients.(Medtronic is currently the sole manufacturer of deep brain stimulation equipment, as well as a leader in implantable drug infusion technology.)
Now, Eli Lilly and Medtronic are joining forces to collaborate on a combination therapy for Parkinson’s patients. Together they will conduct research and develop a new approach to treating this debilitating disease using an implantable drug delivery system.
“We believe we have biosynthetically engineered this GDNF variant to overcome technical hurdles of previous research in this area and are hopeful that early testing of our biologic with Medtronic’s device will provide the necessary data to safely advance into human studies,” said Michael Hutton, chief scientific officer of the neurodegeneration team at Lilly, in a statement. “By collaborating with Medtronic from the earliest phase of research, we are maximizing the potential for this therapy’s efficient and effective development.”
Medtronic’s implantable drug delivery system will hopefully allow Lilly’s strength inbiologic, a modified form of glial cell derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) to cross the blood barrier in the brain, which has thus far been a challenge.
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