Gentleman start your engines!
Endra (NDRA) recently announced it has advanced to ‘substantive review*’ with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its ultra-sonic fatty liver detector. Up until now, actually up until approval, a liver biopsy was the most reliable way** to detect the danger. And it is dangerous!
ENDRA Life Sciences’ TAEUS De Novo Submission Advances to Next Stage of Review with FDA
Here’s the deal. ENDRA has developed a non-invasive thermo-acoustic enhanced ultrasound technology called TAEUS that transmits sound waves, which bounce off tissues, organs, and blood in the body for use in the treatment of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
Studies estimate at least half of all people living with type 2 diabetes have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. So let’s call it an addressable market of around 37 million in the U.S. alone.
So many people world wide have diabetes, we are contemplating launching a website dedicated to companies working on solutions and treatments. Look at how Eli Lilly (up 600%)and Novo Nordisk (up 307%) have performed on the heels’ of their new diabetes drugs. Combined they are now worth nearly $1 trillion!
There’s got to be some good small-cap diabetes plays out there, right?
Back to ENDRA..
So should the 37 million diabetics know (get tested) to see if they have early or late stage fatty liverism (a term we made up)? Answer: yes. Second question, should the diabetics who have tested positive for fatty liver, be regularly monitored to see if the fatty liverism is advancing (aka getting worse)?
Answer: Oh Hal yes, just take our word for it. Especially if a non-invasive test existed to test for it (hello ENDRA). A fatty liver can lead to cirrhosis or live cancer and then a liver transplant. Yes, diabetics who don’t drink can get cirrhosis.
Diabetes factoid: there are over 17,000 patients on the liver waiting list, but only enough donated livers to perform about 5,000 transplants per year. As a result, more than 1,700 patients die each year while on liver waiting lists.
Back to the De Novo submission…
First DO NOT confuse FDA goals with anything concrete, from an investment point of view. The latest FDA goal is to review De Novo submissions within 150 calendar days for 70% of De Novo submissions. No word on how long the other 30% will take, lol.
Secondly, it is simply a review. Of course a company can’t get a product approved without getting reviewed, but many investors we have spoken to are mistakenly under the impression that De Novo submissions have greater odds at getting approved. This is a false impression – for the record. So don’t remove your crash helmet just yet.
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So with that said…
ENDRA’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Francois Michelon stated in a press release, “We are very pleased that our FDA De Novo submission has advanced to the substantive review stage.” Adding “ENDRA is committed to bringing the TAEUS technology to the U.S market to help clinicians combat the global epidemic of fatty liver disease, which affects over one billion people globally. We look forward to supporting the FDA as they continue their review.”
No deep dive here, as we are still studying. Other than to note:
- The market cap is $10 million (as in omg).
- It’s 1/50th the cost at the point of patient care.
- It’s designed to work in concert with over 500,000 ultrasound systems in use globally today. So Doctors don’t have to buy a new machine.
*Substantive Review
During acceptance review, the FDA assesses the completeness of the application and whether it meets the threshold of acceptability. In 15 days, the FDA will notify the submitter about whether the application has been accepted for substantive review, not accepted (RTA) and the requester has 180 days to address the RTA, or if the application is under substantive review and FDA didn’t complete acceptance review within 15 days. Read More..
**MRI and fatty liver detection. National Institute of Health
#ENDRA, #NDRA, $NDRA
About ENDRA Life Sciences Inc.
ENDRA Life Sciences is the pioneer of Thermo Acoustic Enhanced UltraSound (TAEUS ® ), a ground-breaking technology being developed to visualize tissue like MRI, but at 1/50 th the cost and at the point of patient care. TAEUS ® is designed to work in concert with over 500,000 ultrasound systems in use globally today. TAEUS ® is initially focused on the measurement of fat in the liver as a means to assess and monitor Steatotic Liver Disease (SLD) (formerly known as NAFLD-NASH), a chronic liver spectrum that affects over one billion people globally, and for which there are no practical diagnostic tools. Beyond the liver, ENDRA is exploring several other clinical applications of TAEUS ® , including visualization of tissue temperature during energy-based surgical procedures. For more information, please visit www.endrainc.com .
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