The BioMedWire Podcast

The latest episode features John Climaco, CEO of CNS Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: CNSP), a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of novel treatments for primary and metastatic cancers in the brain and central nervous system.

To begin the interview, Climaco discussed CNS Pharmaceuticals’ business model, including the company’s recent announcement of an exclusive in-license agreement to expand its development pipeline.

“We are an oncology drug development company. Specifically, our space is neuro-oncology – cancers of the brain and the central nervous system. Traditionally, these are some of the most difficult and deadly cancers,” he said. “They are very challenging to treat, because they lie beyond the blood-brain barrier, which is this very specialized network of cells that protects the most important organ in the body. It's very hard to get drugs and treatments to the brain when you have tumors growing in it, so that is really what we specialize in.”

“We have a very exciting compound called Berubicin. It's a first-in-class drug that penetrates the blood-brain barrier and treats brain cancer. This is in a late stage, designed to be pivotal trial, with over 250 patients in the United States and Europe currently enrolled. It'll be reading top-line data in the first half of next year, so we're very excited about that. We've been working on Berubicin since the company's inception back in 2017.”

“Our recent news is equally exciting. After many years of searching and diligence and evaluating over 200 different compounds for potential in-license, we settled on an amazing drug called TPI-287, which is a novel abeotaxane of the taxane family. This is also a unique blood-brain barrier penetrant drug that was specifically designed to treat these very difficult brain cancers, such as glioblastoma. This drug has already been used in 350 patients in a series of phase one studies. We are just getting started on planning what will be another designed to be pivotal study for this very exciting drug.”

Join IBN’s Carmel Fisher and John Climaco, CEO of CNS Pharmaceuticals Inc., to learn more about what sets Berubicin, as well as the company’s new TPI-287 candidate, apart from anything else in development for glioblastoma.

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