Award-winning pharmaceutical company commercialise groundbreaking Alzheimer's invention

An NEPIC-award winning pharmaceuticals company have announced they are make a groundbreaking invention commercial.

Shasun Pharmaceuticals won an NEPIC Innovation award for their development of the manufacture of Huperzine-A, a substance that can improve the memory of Alzheimer’s patients.

The Indian owned company has substantial manufacturing assets and research and development capability in Dudley, Northumberland and has developed new technology to make the compound more commercially viable.

The company has announced that they have entered into a licensing agreement for the manufacturing and commercialisation of Huperzine-A.

The naturally occurring substance has been shown in clinical studies to significantly improve cognitive performance in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.

Huperzine-A is difficult to produce in commercial quantities, but chemist working in Cramlington and Chenai, India have developed new technology that could make the substance more commercially available.

Shasun Pharmaceuticals and Debiopharma Group have now announced that they have entered into a licensing agreement for the manufacture and commercialisation of Huperzine-A.

The compound will be made available in the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical markets.

Dr Stan Higgins, chief executive and director of NEPIC, said: “This announcement brings great pride to NEPIC and its members in North East England on many fronts.

“Not least because we picked this important innovation as the winner at our annual awards, recognising that as a sector we continue to have great new chemistry going on in our region, but more importantly that it shows it is our chemistry using industries that continue to work on products that can make such a difference to people’s lives.

“We are also pleased to note that this innovation is as a result of a UK–India collaboration and as many know, NEPIC has been promoting such interactions for a number of years.

“Congratulations to our Shasun colleagues here in the UK and India.”

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