GSNO Therapeutics’ initial strategy is to pursue diseases that have relatively quick and less expensive clinical trials. Trials for autoimmune conjunctivitis and dry eye fit that bill, as do trials in the age-related diseases of periodontal disease, hearing loss, and hospitalized sarcopenia. The aging, diabetic vervet monkey trials currently underway should further help us refine the best approach.
GSNO Therapeutics also has encouraging preclinical data in the ovalbumin and house dust mite models of asthma, some of which were published in Ferrini et al., 2013 (please see the list of publications). GSNO Therapeutics is interested in out-licensing this application of its technology.
Other researchers have shown that GSNOR inhibition is efficacious in animal models of stroke, neurodegenerative diseases such as MS, cognitive dysfunction, spinal cord injury, inflammatory bowel disease, endothelial vasodilatory function, hypertensive kidney damage, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).