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- Advanced Anti-TNF Antibody… Eye Drop Bio Better as
Eyewash
- Outstanding
Preclinical Result: High Stability and Effect… Clinical Trial Phase 1 to be
Completed by the Second Quarter of the Next year
HanAll Biopharma(CO-CEO Seung-kook Park and Jae-chun Yun)
has announced that the company has received the approval for the clinical trial
phase 1 on ‘HL036’, the new medicine for dry eye disease, by the Ministry of
Food and Drug Safety on November 19.
Dry eye
disease is a disease from damaged surface of eyeball by excessive evaporation
of tear or insufficient formation of tear, and the disease occurs from high
osmosis and accumulation of infective material within tear. From aging society,
excessive use of computer, and environmental change due to use of air
conditioning and heating equipment, the number of dry eye disease patients are
increasing.
‘HL036’, a
new medicine under development by HanAll Biopharma for dry eye disease is a Bio Better
medicine of eye drop for eye wash made of advanced anti-TNF antibody.
Bio Better
is a field to enhance medicinal effect and convenience of conventional original
bio medicines through advanced technology, and it takes 47.7% of the protein
bio medicine market over the world(20 trillion KRW).
Especially,
the anti-TNF antibody is the largest antibody medicine with the market size of
26 trillion KRW over the world, and the representative product is Enbrel Inj
for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. It restricts combination with TNF
receptor, which brings various inflammatory disease, to have outstanding
therapeutic mechanism for anti-inflammation.
HL036 is Bio
Better with molecular reorganization that has been improved to indicate more
stability and vitality and high tissue-distribution rate compare to
conventional anti-TNF antibody. The advanced Bio Better technology of HanAll called
‘Resistein’ Technology has been used, and by using such technology, it may be
applied to arthritis, chronic respiratory infection, neurological infection,
inflammatory bowel disease, and other severe inflammation besides a dry eye
disease.
An official
from HanAll Biopharma said, “As a result of pre-clinical trial(animal test),
the effect and stability of HL036 are high, and the clinical trial phase1 to be
performed at the Seoul National University Hospital will be completed by the
second quarter of the next year.”