IRLAB’s mesdopetam displays antipsychotic properties in an advanced model of Parkinson’s disease psychosis

Gothenburg, Sweden, 19 March 2024 - IRLAB Therapeutics AB (Nasdaq Stockholm: IRLAB A), a company discovering and developing novel treatments for Parkinson’s disease, today announced that a scientific paper reporting the effects of IRLAB’s candidate drug mesdopetam in a preclinical model of Parkinson’s disease psychosis (PD-P) has been published in the journal Neurotherapeutics.

The paper reports a series of preclinical studies performed by the group for Integrative Neurophysiology, Lund University, Sweden, in collaboration with scientists at IRLAB. The studies are based on characterization of the neurophysiological brain state in an advanced preclinical model of PD-P. The effects of Mesdopetam, along with two compounds, clozapine and pimavanserin, which are clinically used to alleviate PD-P, and an experimental D3 antagonist, were investigated in this model.

The studies concluded that mesdopetam displays key features associated with antipsychotic efficacy in this PD-P model and should be further explored as a potential novel treatment option for psychosis in Parkinson’s disease.

“The brain state characterization presented in the paper is an impressive new technique which enables a new level of understanding of the brain mechanisms underlying PD-P and provides a great tool for evaluation of potential new therapies. These new results strongly support that mesdopetam has potential as a novel therapeutic in PD-P, also in light of the excellent safety and tolerability profile seen in clinical studies with mesdopetam,” says Nicholas Waters, EVP & Head of R&D at IRLAB.

Datum 2024-03-19, kl 07:00
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