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Ensysce Biosciences (NASDAQ:ENSC) announced that it has received a $14 million grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) for the continued clinical development of PF614-MPAR—the company’s abuse-deterrent opioid with overdose protection. The award will be paid over three years and, according to the company, all for the completion on the Phase 1b clinical trial. This award creates multiple positive impacts for the company. First, the money from the grant will help fund operations and further clinical testing, while allowing the company to limit future potential dilution to shareholders. Additionally, the award represents, in our view, another positive vote from a respected medical organization that has seen the initial data and believes in the potential benefits of this treatment.
We aren’t going to rehash recent reports that have outlined the positive test results for PF614 and PF614-MPAR. But, as a reminder, these tests have shown that PF614 can provide the much-needed pain relief that is currently available through the highly abused oxycodone, while having abuse resistant properties and lasting longer. Additionally, an important reminder that PF-614-MPAR received an FDA grant of Breakthrough Therapy designation, which allows ENSC the opportunity to accelerate clinical programs and commercialization plans. The grant, which has been applied to fewer than 300 drugs historically, illustrates the importance and urgency that these solutions are needed. We are again reiterating our belief that the treatments being developed by Ensysce will be game changers in the pain relief market and again suggest that investors take a strong look at ENSC.
PF614-MPAR has been shown in testing to have the potential to provide much needed pain relief to patients and provides protections against taking too many pills, which often leads to debilitating addiction. The technology involved causes the drug to become inactive when dosing requirements are exceeded—greatly diminishing the “incentive” patients may have to take more than the prescribed dose.
Ensysce Biosciences continues to be one of the companies that we cover that we believe most of America would hope is successful and one we are becoming more convinced will achieve its goals. The opioid crisis remains a plague on the American public and is destroying families and entire communities. The National Institute on Drug Abuse reported more than 107,000 overdose deaths in 2022—and that doesn’t count the millions of family members and friends impacted by those deaths. Ensysce has extremely promising technology in the form of PF614 and PF614-MPAR that are abuse resistant, while still providing the much-needed pain relief that many Americans need with a longer lasting dose than its bioequivalent OxyContin.