VistaGen Therapeutics, Inc. (VSTA) Aims to Revive Once-Promising Drug Candidates with Latest Medicinal Technology
VistaGen is a biotech company applying human pluripotent stem cell technology for drug rescue and regenerative cell therapy. The company’s drug rescue program involves combining this stem cell technology with the latest medicinal chemistry to create new chemical variants of once-promising small molecule drug candidates that were discontinued prior to market approval due to unexpected safety concerns of the heart and/or liver. VSTA is primarily focused on leveraging its Human Clinical Trials in a Test Tube™ platform to assess heart and liver toxicity of new drug candidates in an accelerated and higher precision means versus currently used in vitro techniques…