How Big Pharma Stands to Benefit from VistaGen Therapeutics’ (VSTA) Human Clinical Trials in a Test Tube™ Platform
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has a low tolerance for drug candidates with safety risks; countless potential new drugs candidates fail in preclinical or clinical trials due to safety concerns, costing pharmaceutical companies billions of dollars in research and development (R&D) costs. VistaGen Therapeutics, a biotech company applying stem cell technology for drug rescue and cell therapy, believes that the majority of pricey and unexpected heart and liver toxicity and metabolism issues is due to limitations of the major toxicological testing systems currently used in the pharmaceutical industry, such as animal testing and cellular assays based on transformed cell…