NEOSH101 - Where did it go?

[PaulC]

Have any of you that have been around for a while heard of a growth stimulant called NEOSH101 that was apparently superior to Rogaine so it has been claimed.

The compound was originally named OSH101, and it was owned by OsteoScreen. Neosil acquired the patent later. It was then owned by a company named Peplin, and they did not its seems continue to work the potential product. As far as I can tell the patent is now owned by a Danish company called LEO Pharma. I am not sure if they are currently developing this patent for the market place.

If you look at some older sites the testing was looking very positive it was being promoted as the topical replacement to Minoxidil and seemingly without sides.

I wonder why such an potentially interesting product has not been brought to the market place. An argument is that no single company is prepared to make such in investment in just one product.

[DepressedByHairLoss]

I think that Neosil had something really promising but then they went out of business. Then other companies buy the rights to their products but shelve them because it's not 'cost effective' for them to market or produce something like NEOS101 right now. Or they shelve the product for some other reason. What sucks is that if some one else wants to test the product or the ingredients that make the product grow hair, they can't because the company that shelved the product owns the patent to it. It really sucks that all of these pharmaceutical companies are more about making money than curing diseases. I think that what happened with RegeneRx is a similar story. They discovered that a chemical called TB4-7 grows hair and they were supposedly going to attempt to create a product based on this. Then this idea got shelved for some reason and has remained shelved for years and years. Then Adistem in Korea was attempting to create a product with TB4-7 to regrow hair, yet the product was only available for a few months and then it was discontinued. I'd bet it was because RegeneRx owned a patent for using TB4-7 to regrow hair and Adistem was afraid they'd sue them for copyright infringement. Unfortunately the pharmaceutical industry is more about making money than curing diseases.

[DepressedByHairLoss]

It's just frustrating cus there are so many patents to treat hair loss yet nobody is doing a damn thing to test them on humans and bring them to the marketplace.

[CAlex]

wow that drug name is a blast from the past. I remember that it had such potential but it ended up being purchased and then shelved. They are not even testing it at all.

[kiwi40]

I suspect that the big companies that sell hair loss products may have bought these formulas and taken this product off the shelves as it was a threat to the the billion dollar hair industry, they have much to loose if a product that restores hair loss and does not need frequent re-use existed. Just like the story of the electric car that was taken off the market during the 90's , as seen in the documentary "who killed the electric car?" a 2006 documentary that explores the creation, and discontinuation of the commercial electric car by oil&gaz billionaire companies.

Could rogain and propecia the bald man's worst enemies???

[clandestine]

Interesting claim, kiki40. Reminds me of the argument stating the industry stands to make more money in treatments rather than cures, and will suppress said solutions for the very purposes of profit.