DAVIS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today Vitalea Science announced it had received a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) grant to develop and test assays to quantify intracellular uptake of the active metabolite of a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) drug that can be applied to children and neonates. “Until now most drugs, although used in children, do not have pharmacology information pertinent to this population. Children are not small adults and are obviously not large rats, yet drug information relating to children is extrapolated from adult or animal data,” said Dr. Le Vuong. Dr. Vuong is one of the recipients of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award and is Chief Operating Officer of Vitalea Science, Inc., a bio-analytical Contract Research Organization (CRO) focused on providing ultra-sensitive detection of drug metabolism using Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS).
