Company: SHPH
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001493152-25-008300
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Company: Shuttle Pharmaceuticals Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
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 therapies for patients with aggressive cancers.

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Radiation
Oncology has gone through transformative technological innovation over the last several years to better define tumors, allow improved
shaping of radiation delivery and support dose escalation with shorter courses of treatment. Furthermore, achieving higher dose distributions
within tumor volumes has reached a practical plateau, since cancers are frequently integrated with or surrounded by more sensitive normal
tissues and further dose escalation increases risks of tissue necrosis. To increase cancer cures at maximally tolerated radiation doses,
pharmacological and biological modifications of cells are needed to sensitize cancers, protect normal tissues, and stimulate the immune
system to react against antigens produced by irradiated, damaged cancer cells. Drugs that show sensitizing properties, or the ability
to make cancer cells more sensitive to radiation, offer a solution to this problem. Currently, such drugs are chemotherapy agents used
off-label, and many have inherent toxicities since they were designed for direct cancer treatments and not for sensitization. However,
the clinical value of using radiation sensitizing drugs in combination with RT has been accepted in a variety of cancer types, including
gynecological, gastro-intestinal, pulmonary and other malignancies. Hence, there is a critical need for new drugs that preferentially
sensitize cancer cells to radiation therapy and that stimulate the innate immune response against irradiated cancer cells. Furthermore,
to advance precision medicine in radiation oncology, there is a need for imaging and molecular diagnostic tests for determining the extent
of cancer spread in the body and for predicting clinical responses to therapy.

We
are developing our products with the goal of addressing the unmet need in cancer treatment for a commercially marketable radiation response
modifier solution that leads to greater sensitivity of cancer cells to ionizing radiation therapy. The goal of our products is to increase
the therapeutic index for patients receiving radiation and to decrease radiation-related toxicities in patients with solid tumors. Our
products operate across three areas related to the treatment of cancer with RT:

    1.
    Sensitization
    of growing cancer cells, rendering them more susceptible to the effects of radiation therapy.

    2.
    Activation
    of the DNA damage response pathway to kill cancer cells and protect adjacent normal cells.

    3.
    Activation
    of the immune system to kill any remaining cells after RT.

Our
platform technology allows for the creation of an inventory of products for radiation sensitizing, immune modulation, and protection
of healthy tissue.

Operations
to date have focused on continuing our research