DALLAS, TX--(Marketwire - March 25, 2010) - Congressman Danny K. Davis (Il-7th) recently submitted House Resolution 1179, legislation that puts Congress on record in supporting biotechnology firms that meet small business standards, their intellectual property, the importance of the impact of various innovative therapies to treat a variety of life threatening conditions, including pandemic diseases. HemoBioTech (
"Almost every state has a variety of biotechnology companies vital to the health and well-being of the people and economy of that state. This is a non-partisan issue and I ask my fellow Members, both Democrats and Republicans, to join me in this effort," Rep. Davis said. "Biotechnology is an important contributor to the jobs and intellectual capital. It promotes healthcare innovation across the country and an ability to compete in a global marketplace."
"Our major goal is to confirm earlier results that HemoTech, our investigational blood substitute, was safe and effective in an initial study in children who received HemoTech equal to 25% of their blood volume," said Dr. Arthur Bollon, President and CEO, HemoBioTech. "An FDA approved blood substitute would be enormously beneficial to the US military, for trauma situations and to people in developing nations where the blood supply is not screened efficiently. In fact 10% of new HIV-AIDS cases globally are caused by HIV contaminated blood. We urge Members of Congress to support this legislation."
HemoTech is based on a patented process involving hemoglobin modified with Adenosine and GSH. This strategy is cited and highlighted by us in the Resolution shown below and has been cited by the FDA in April 29, 2008 and Congressman Ed Towns in August 10, 2009 as a new generation approach for a viable blood substitute.
The legislation encourages therapies and new drug development to treat the unmet medical needs of patients with debilitating conditions and life-threatening diseases, including those in medically underserved communities. The key to the legislation is congressional support of point of care therapeutics and diagnostics by emerging and small biotechnology firms for domestic and global use.
About HemoBioTech, Inc.
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Researchers believe that HemoTech carries oxygen in the blood, and induces erythropoiesis (red blood cell production). The Company believes that HemoTech, due to its novel chemical structure, may possess properties that diminish the intrinsic toxicities that have plagued other attempts at developing blood substitutes, based upon pre-clinical and initial human clinical trials undertaken outside the U.S.
HemoTech is being subjected to further studies and testing to confirm and possibly expand on these initial results. HemoTech is being developed to help reduce or eliminate the danger resulting from acute blood loss in trauma, anemia, as well as for other conditions. HemoTech is an investigational biological drug that has not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and cannot currently be marketed.
Contact information is: Arthur P. Bollon, Ph.D. at 469-585-7613 or arthurb@flash.net. Corporate headquarters are located at 5001 Spring Valley Road, Suite 1040-West, Dallas, Texas 75244.
www.hemobiotech.com. The text of H. RES. 1179 follows:
111th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. RES. 1179
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that biotechnology firms meeting small business standards are critical to the United States, its people and its economy because they create new medicines, services, and jobs and meet unmet needs related to populations and patients with infectious and chronic diseases, including those of medically underserved populations.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 12, 2010
Mr. DAVIS of Illinois submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
RESOLUTION
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that biotechnology firms meeting small business standards are critical to the United States, its people and its economy because they create new medicines, services, and jobs and meet unmet needs related to populations and patients with infectious and chronic diseases, including those of medically underserved populations.
Whereas small biotechnology firms have developed intellectual property that is of value to the health and well-being of the people in the United States and the world;
Whereas small biotechnology firms deserve a comprehensive, prompt, direct, and effective review of their products and processes by all Federal agencies of jurisdiction;
Whereas HIV/AIDS, the most virulent strains of tuberculosis, Hepatitis C, pandemic diseases, and other life threatening conditions, including cardiovascular conditions, stroke, cancer, sickle cell, neurological conditions, gastrointestinal, infectious, autoimmune, and mental illness diseases, are an increasing threat to the life, safety, and the fiscal balance of State and local health public health organizations, especially in areas with high proportions of underserved and under-resourced populations;
Whereas over 1,100,000 persons in the United States are living with HIV/AIDS, including a large number of racial and ethnic minorities;
Whereas there is a need to encourage therapies and new drug development to treat the unmet medical needs of patients with debilitating conditions and life-threatening diseases, including those in medically underserved communities;
Whereas new antibiotic and biologic medicines for these infections and diseases will not only save lives, but provide cost savings vitally important to the improvement of the Nation's health and the reduction of health care costs; and
Whereas small business biotechnology firms need Federal assistance to commercialize products related to new and promising technologies, including therapeutics for drug resistant pathogens, new approaches to antibiotics based on defensin mimetics, adenosine-based synthetic blood substitutes, allogeneic cellular immune therapy, peptide-based and nanoparticle-based therapeutic HIV vaccines, HIV vaccine adjuvants, immune-based therapies including irreversible pepsin fraction, cytokines, and hormones, innovative clinical interventions for adverse, debilitating drug related events such as peripheral neuropathy, HIV antiviral therapies, and processes including lentiviral-based gene therapy, antiviral hyperactivation limiting therapeutics, autologous dendritic cell therapy, Pyrimidinedione-based NNRTIs, dual tropic CCR5 antagonists, point-of-care rapid diagnostics, and therapeutic nutrition: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
(1) recognizes that the public deserves the safest, most effective, and efficient processes in regards to saving the lives of people living in the United States with infectious and chronic diseases;
(2) supports the domestic development and commercialization of biotechnology research by firms meeting small business size standards and collaborations with university-based biotechnology research facilities;
(3) supports and seeks to encourage the advancement of United States-based commercialization of point of care therapeutics and diagnostics by emerging and small business biotechnology firms for domestic and global use;
(4) recognizes the need to coordinate existing public funding to help small business biotechnology firms whose products may be lost due to domestic economic conditions, and fund critical paths for small biotechnology drug development and for regulatory review and commercial approval;
(5) encourages the development of a formalized, national strategic framework to facilitate technological advancements in improving the commercialization processes for small business biotechnology firms;
(6) wishes to promote and encourage the creation of incentives for small business biotechnology companies that perform basic and applied research through the development and commercialization of biotechnology products and processes and their diffusion into national and local economies to improve the quality of life of people in the United States;
(7) encourages the development of a comprehensive approach to describing disease populations and the production of comprehensive research programs that are current with evolving biotechnology and the unmet needs of diverse patient populations; and
(8) encourages the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to develop a Federal Biotechnology Coordinating Council representative of small business biotechnology companies, research facilities, and Federal agencies with a strategic initiative to facilitate development and preserve these small business biotechnology firms and coordinate resources and funding mechanisms for this purpose.
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CONTACT: Arthur Bollon, PhD 972-455-8955