This might change with fast-tracking? Or is that only for when all the phases are completed? Also, as far as I can remember phase 3 is usually involving hundreds of participants, so maybe there's a pretty big chance to get on one of those?
A few weeks ago the CEO of the company gave an interview with Bloomberg stating they hoped to report results from 1.5 in January 2019.
A financing round like this is always a validation for the technology/drug development in a way that the venture cap investors get full disclosure of all the available data to date. It is great that Frequency Therapeutics is now fully funded but the selection of investors leaves a bit puzzled. This financing round was lead by Taiwania Capital which is an IT focused venture cap based in Taiwan and they closed their first healthcare fund late 2018. So not exactly a long track record in the sector.
True, I kind of overlooked this while reading it. It says trial is "ongoing" and results are "expected in the first half of 2019". That's a bit frustrating. Not sure whether this can be taken as a positive, negative or neutral indicator though.
I choose to regard the fact that this company presents some preliminary facts & figures of an ongoing trial and manages to secure an investment for $43m the very next day as positive sign. Not negative.
The drug already exists, it is safe, and it activates hair cell regeneration. The FDA is just slowing everything down. What? Are they protecting us from? A drug that's already proven safe?
I hear you. I never talk about my tinnitus to my friends unless I really have to, because I know it must be boring as shit. Everyone has their own shit to deal with... unfortunately.
While this is true, I find personally that the issues people have around me are ones that can be fixed or resolved, while we have no true solution accessible to us as of now.
Yes. at least you got 1 like. whenever I make a tinnitus related Facebook update I get zero feedback.......I gave up a while ago.
It's sad, but no one really cares. You would think with all the issues tinnitus and hearing loss causes there would be more publicity and funding. We are the extreme minority. I see the silliest things getting so much publicity and hearing loss gets almost none. Try to do a fundraiser and you will be very disappointed. I have tried numerous times to bring these issues out and they have all failed. I'm glad frequency is continuing their efforts though. I'm guessing that everyone that has funded them has more information than we have so this is all good news.
We have come a long way, but we still don't fully understand how our hearing works. Right now they only have bits and pieces of a pretty large puzzle. I know its a long strung out process, but they are trying to protect us from any number of unknown long term effects that could happen. What happens in 5 years..... 10 years..... Does it improve hearing, but not speech understanding??? This is a big one that has yet to be answered.
Definitely agree with that. I'd change my tinnitus for a whole basket of "regular" life problems any day.
Long term side effects? How much do we need? Can we repeat the treatment or is it a one shot opportunity?
Nothing, the drug leaves your body. Why not just wait until we're all old and dead to release it so we can be reallllllly sure????
It leaves your body very rapidly, that has already been shown. I doubt the regenerated hair cells are going to sit around for years and then morph into cancer cells or grow you a new head.
Like you, I would inject that drug into my ears tomorrow. I do not think there is an adverse effect more horrible than severe tinnitus.
I used to post research information on Facebook tinnitus groups but got little response/got comments that there will never be a cure etc.
If you get debilitating tinnitus as a result of that treatment, you will get the answer to the question above...
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