MitoChem Therapeutics, Inc. , a privately held company developing therapies for diseases involving mitochondrial dysfunction, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation status to its lead compound, MC16, for treatment of retinitis pigmentosa (RP). Retinitis pigmentosa is an inherited degenerative disease of the retina caused by genetic mutations that lead to severe vision loss and blindness
April 14, 2021
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