Annovis Bio announces filing of new patent application for mental illnesses

Annovis Bio announced the filing of a patent application covering the use of buntanetap and its analogues for the treatment of neuropsychiatric indications. This application follows the U.S. Provisional Application No. 63/440,890 which was filed on January 24, 2023. The patent application titled “Treatment of Mental Illness via Administration of Buntanetap and Analogues Thereof” addresses methods for treating, inhibiting, reducing, slowing, or delaying onset of mental illnesses by administration of buntanetap or its pharmaceutically acceptable salts. Buntanetap can be used alone or synergistically with effective quantities of antipsychotic agents, antidepressant agents, hallucinogenic agents, or combinations thereof. “The ability of buntanetap to inhibit a wide range of neurotoxic proteins, as shown in our Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s studies, is associated with improved mental health which opens new avenues for delaying or treating certain mental conditions,” said Maria Maccecchini, Ph.D., Founder, President, and CEO of Annovis. “The filing of this patent application serves as a robust reinforcement of our intellectual property portfolio, bolstering our mission to bring therapeutic solutions for brain-related disorders to market, which now also include mental illness in addition to neurodegeneration diseases.”