RE: Imm9 Dec 2025 11:40
Hi Rookie1.
Thanks for your positive posts on this bulletin board. You have lots of fortitude in the face of abuse from those contributors who only see the worst in every situation relating to IMM. The latest is from Juxta who is unhappy that IMM's office address is not an entity with lots of office space.
He does not seem to understand that IMM is a small company which has been given the permission by the CNRS, France's leading research institution, to commercialise the discoveries of its research staff.
One of these is the discovery by Professor Sylviane Muller, one of the directors of CNRS, of a peptide with which she planned to cure the autoimmune disease, Lupus. This peptide was called Lupuzor. It failed to pass its Phase 3 trial, largely because of the failure of the drug in the US.
Lupuzor was given a new lease of life with financial support from the American company, Avion, and was advised by the FDA to continue to trial it using much higher doses. At this much higher dosage, Lupuzor was effective and well tolerated by the patients who took part in this new trial.
Professor Muller's work was continued by Dr Sebastien Goudreau IMM's chief scientist, who developed Lupuzor as one of a suite of drugs called P140. He and his principal assistant, Dr Laura Mauran-Ambrosino, have continued research into the P140 drugs suite and have progressed it further so as to show that this family of drugs can not only cure around 50 autoimmune diseases but also diagnose them beforehand.
Nearly 100 years ago, in 1928, Dr Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin, and in the coming years he and his principal researchers, Howard Florey and Ernst Chain, produced a purified version of it. For their their work, Fleming and his associates were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1945. Their work was worth a fortune, none of which was due to the the cost of their offices and other property. It was all down to their brain power.
Perhaps in the years to come Drs Muller, Goudreau and Mauran-Ambrosino will also receive the Nobel Prize for their work on the P140 drugs. It will have nothing to do with IMM's office and labs. It will be all down to their brain power. Again.