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Tenax Announces the Addition of Mayo Clinic Expert, Dr. Barry Borlaug, to Scientific Advisory Board
MORRISVILLE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Tenax Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TENX), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on identifying, developing and
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[{"type":"text","content":" MORRISVILLE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nTenax Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TENX), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on identifying, developing and commercializing products that address cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases with high unmet medical need, today announced that Dr. Barry Borlaug, Chair for Research, Division of Circulatory Failure, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Mayo Clinic has joined our scientific advisory board. Tenax CEO Tony DiTonno stated: “We are very excited to have someone of Dr. Borlaug’s stature joining our scientific advisory board. Dr. Borlaug is a global leader in the fields of HFpEF and PH-HFpEF clinical research and is the leading enroller in the HELP Study. Dr. Borlaug’s expertise in the field, and his firsthand experience gained as a HELP Study investigator, make him an ideal addition to our scientific advisory board.”\n\n\nTenax is conducting a multi-center, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2 trial designed to evaluate levosimendan in patients with pulmonary hypertension and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (PH-HFpEF). The study is also known as the HELP Trial (Hemodynamic Evaluation of Levosimendan in Patients with PH-HFpEF). The Company has activated all 16 sites which it believes will be sufficient to fully enroll the targeted 36 patients. Given the current pace of patient enrollment, we expect full enrollment in the first quarter of 2020 with top-line data in the first half of 2020.\n\n\nDr. Borlaug was the first investigator to enroll a patient in the HELP Study and is the highest enrolling investigator to date with a total of 8 patients randomized at the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Borlaug stated, “I am excited to join my distinguished colleagues Dr. Stuart Rich, Dr. Sanjiv Shah, and Dr. Dan Burkhoff as members of the Tenax scientific advisory board and to be an investigator in the HELP Study. Hemodynamic responses observed during the open-label lead-in phase of the HELP Study have been impressive and I am hopeful that if we observe similar results in the double-blind phase of the trial that it could lead to the first therapy ever approved to treat PH-HFpEF patients.”\n\n\nDr. Borlaug joins the other distinguished members of our advisory board including Stuart Rich, MD, Northwestern, Professor of Medicine Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Di...