Strategy for Building a Better CoQ10
Title: Strategy for Building a Better CoQ10:
Speaker: Kieron Wesson
Added: June 17, 2008
Category: Meet The Team
Transcript
CoQ10 has two parts to it, it has a head, and it has a tail. The redox activity resides in the head. The tail part is really to do with where CoQ10 is naturally present in the body and how it anchors to membrane. At Edison, we're improving both parts of this molecule. Some work has already been done, in medicinal chemistry, on the tail. But at Edison, we're trying to improve that even more. To improve the drug like properties of the molecule, where we might get more absorption, for example. We're also, targeting the head, trying to do medicinal chemistry around the head to see if we can change and tweak its activity, because that's important too. And we think, collectively, we can make a better CoQ10.