MAN's best friend may be able to stick around more as a California company is looking to launch a drug to make dogs live longer.
Loyal, based in San Fransisco, announced on Tuesday that it reached a major milestone in its efforts to produce the drug.
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The drug is called LOY-OO1 and would be administered to playful pups with routine injections.
Loyal announced that the FDA has given the company a “technical section complete,” meaning the administration agrees with data showing how effective the drug is.
The drug is not currently being sold as work is still being done to determine how long it can exactly extend a dog's life.
“Loyal was founded with the ambitious goal of developing the first drugs to extend healthy lifespan in dogs,” Loyal CEO Celine Halioua said in a statement.
“This milestone is the result of years of careful work by the team. We’ll continue to work just as diligently to bring this and our other longevity programs through to FDA approval.”
Currently, the company is anticipating to see the drug become available to pet owners in 2026.
Before dog-lovers can purchase the drug, it still needs to receive the FDA's approval of Loyal's manufacturing and safety data.
In their Tuesday announcement, the company pointed to the well-known relationship between a dog's size and their expected lifespan, with smaller dogs living longer than larger breeds.
“The extreme phenotypic variety found in dogs is not ‘natural’ — it’s the result of intensive breeding by humans to create dogs that excelled at tasks such as herding, protection, and companionship,” Brennen McKenzie, Loyal’s Director of Veterinary Medicine, said in a statement.
“At Loyal, we see the short lifespan of big dogs not as inevitable, but as a genetically-associated disease caused by historical artificial selection, and therefore amenable to targeting and treatment with a drug.”
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