Millions of people worldwide with severe lower back pain may get relief from a new drug that uses antibiotics rather than painkillers to tackle the condition.

Small trial suggests injected drug PP353 could be ‘a gamechanger’, but experts express scepticism.
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Congratulations to everyone involved in the project including colleagues at Persica, our wide network of partners, the clinical team and especially the patients. lnkd.in/e-FcHD5b 🧪

Exciting News!

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The last patient has now completed the 12-month follow-up in our groundbreaking #Modic Trial. T

If you’d like to learn more about the trial: lnkd.in/gwB_7Bmx

Results are expected in Q1 2025. 🧪

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Developing a novel treatment for chronic low back pain
To learn more persicapharmaceuticals.com/persica-news/
Or read
Hagger et al. doi.org/10.1002/jsp2...
Tripathi et al. doi.org/10.1002/jsp2...
#WAAW #WAAW2024 #clbp #BackPain #Modic

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Two papers, summarising ten-years of R&D to devise a new treatment for chronic low back pain. Thanks to everyone involved, and especially the patients in the clinical trial.

To learn more lnkd.in/e98AQA4Q
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....