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Serentrix: pain relief without side effects

Serentrix is looking to improve upon an old target for pain

February 8, 2020 4:12 AM UTC
Updated on Feb 8, 2020 at 7:17 PM UTC

Serentrix is looking to revive a well-known pain target that has been largely abandoned by drug developers after antagonists against it led to side effects.

Early clinical testing by Serentrix LLC has shown that the company’s small molecule antagonists of TRPV1, which has been of commercial interest for over a decade, avoid the adverse effects that have derailed programs at large pharmas and biotechs...