BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Regado Biosciences, a privately held company leading the development of antithrombotic aptamers with active control agents, announced today that David J. Mazzo, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, will be presenting at the BIO-Europe Conference 2009 at the Messe Wien Exhibition & Congress Center in Vienna, Austria. Dr. Mazzo’s presentation will be on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 8:45 am (GMT +1hr) and will include an overview of the Company’s pipeline with emphasis on the lead development program, the anticoagulant system, REG1. This conference is Europe’s largest partnering conference, serving the global biotechnology industry. The conference attracts leading business development executives from biotech, pharmaceutical, and finance as well as the most exciting emerging companies.
Regado Biosciences is pioneering a new therapeutic technology with the creation and development of two-component drug systems. Each system comprises a nuclease-stabilized RNA aptamer that can be controlled directly by its specific and complementary oligonucleotide active control agent. This technology is being applied to injectable antithrombotics, including anticoagulants and antiplatelet agents, a multi-billion dollar market in need of therapeutics with improved safety profiles and a greater degree of therapeutic control. Regado’s technology is designed to give physicians the ability to actively and directly control each system’s therapeutic effect providing a safe and unique approach to personalized medicine.
Regado’s lead program, the anticoagulant system REG1, consists of two parenteral agents both administered by IV bolus, the first being a potent highly selective Factor IXa inhibitor (RB006) and the second being its complementary active control agent (RB007). RB007 can be used to selectively completely or partially reverse the anticoagulant effect of RB006. REG1 is intended for application in arterial thrombosis applications, initially in Acute Coronary Syndrome patients undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. REG2, Regado’s second product candidate, consists of a subcutaneously administered formulation of RB006 paired with the IV bolus formulation of RB007. REG2 is intended for use in venous thrombosis indications.
RB006 is a member of a class of compounds called aptamers. Aptamers are single stranded oligonucleotides that adopt a specific conformation enabling direct, specific inhibition of the targeted protein. A key unique feature of aptamers derives from the fact that they are formed from nucleic acids. As such, their pharmacologic activity can be controlled by a matched, complementary oligonucleotide active control agent (the Watson-Crick base pair complement of a fraction of the agent to be controlled), which can bind to the aptamer, removing it from its target and reversing it biologic effects.
CONTACT: Ellen McDonald, Chief Business Officer, Regado Biosciences,
+1-908-580-2113, emcdonald@regadobio.com
Web site: http://www.regadobio.com/
