Global Therapeutics Initiates Trial Of Next Generation Drug-Eluting Stent Using RNA Therapeutic Agent To Treat Coronary Artery Disease

Medical News Today
11th November 2008



Global Therapeutics, a leading developer of innovative solutions for the cardiology market, today announced initiation of the world's first clinical trial of a drug eluting stent that uses an antisense RNA therapeutics agent aimed at silencing one of the genes (c-myc) responsible for causing arteries to reclose after stenting (restenosis).