RE: “We have proven this compound is effective and nontoxic in living animals,” said Sarkar. “While we won’t know how FQI1 reacts in humans until the first clinical trial, we are very excited by our findings and hope they lead to a new drug for a disease that is currently very difficult to treat.”
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Sigh, it often works on animals ( mostly mice ), but when tested on humans...
Anyway, testing from phase 1 clinical trials, to phase 2, then phase 3, then phase 4 to final FDA approval for something like this could approach a DECADE costing hundreds of millions of dollars.
And it might not even be approved for various reasons.
Let’s all hope nobody here gets liver cancer in the meantime .
Under certain conditions, some phases can be skipped and go directly to full FDA approval, IF the drug shows that it’s efficacy is so beyond what is expected and side effects are shown to be minimal...............