Ocean Biomedical (NASDAQ: OCEA) Announces New Patent for Anti-Fibrosis Discovery with Allowance in Alcoholic Liver Disease and Multiple Fibrotic Conditions, Leading Causes of Death in the U.S.
Providence, RI, Aug. 29, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ocean Biomedical, Inc. (NASDAQ: OCEA) announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent covering Ocean’s anti-Chitinase 1 small molecule candidate.
- Patent granted for use in IPF, HPS, alcoholic liver disease, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), and scleroderma.
- Providence, RI, Aug. 29, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ocean Biomedical, Inc. (NASDAQ: OCEA ) announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent covering Ocean’s anti-Chitinase 1 small molecule candidate.
- Targeted diseases include alcoholic liver disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), scleroderma, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), and Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome (HPS), a rare disease that currently has no known treatments.
- Ocean’s approach has shown an 85%–90% reduction in collagen accumulation in four different IPF and HPS pulmonary fibrosis animal models.