EX-10.11



 Exhibit 10.11 

SEVENTH ADDENDUM 
 TO
THE RESEARCH AND LICENSE AGREEMENT 
 This Seventh Addendum to Research and license Agreement (the “Seventh Addendum”) is made by
and between the Technion Research and Development Foundation Ltd. (“TRDF”) and Eloxx Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (“Licensee” or “Eloxx”). 

Whereas, TRDF and Eloxx are parties to a Research and License Agreement with an effective date of August 29th 2013 (the “License Agreement”), as amended on November 26th, 2013, January
14th, 2014, June 9th, 2014, August 3rd, 2014, January 21st, 2015, February 9th 2015, April 29th, 2015, June 2nd, 2015, and January 1, 2016 (collectively, the “Agreement”); and 
 Whereas,
according to Section 1.26 to the License Agreement, as amended, the first Research Period has ended on September 30th, 2014, the Second Research Plan has ended on September 30, 2015, the First Research Plan and the Second Research
Plan were completed respectively; 
 Whereas, the parties desire to extend and continue the Research Period and the Research for a third year;
and 
 Whereas, the parties desire to continue the relationship contemplated by the Agreement and therefore to further amend the Agreement as set
forth herein; 
 NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereby agree as follows: 
  

	1.	Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms used in this Seventh Addendum shall have the meaning assigned thereto in the Agreement. 


 

	2.	The parties wish to extend the Research Period for a third year, commencing on March 1st, 2016 for twelve (12) months until February 28th 2017 (“Third Research Period”). The extension shall be on the same terms and conditions as contained in the Agreement unless otherwise agreed in this Seventh Addendum.


  

	3.	Exhibit D to the Agreement is hereby replaced with a new Exhibit D attached hereto (“Third Research Plan”). 

  

	4.	The parties wish to set the terms tor the funding for the performance of the Third Research Plan during the Third Research Period, and replace section 2.2.1 of the License Agreement, as follows: 


 

	 	a)	Licensee shall fund the Research to be performed during the Third Research Period under the Third Research Plan in the total amount of forty thousand US Dollars ($40,000) in accordance with the following schedule:


  

	 	1)	First installment of twenty thousand US Dollars ($20,000) shall be paid upon signing this Seventh Addendum. 

  

	 	2)	Second installment of twenty thousand US Dollars ($20,000) shall be paid upon completion of the Third Research Plan and no later than September 1st 2016.


  

	 	b)	V.A.T as applicable on time of payment shall be added to each installment. 









	 	c)	TRDF shall issue a proper invoice for each installment. 

  

	5.	Except as amended herein, all other terms and conditions of the Agreement shall remain in full force and effect. 

  

									
	 ELOXX PHARMACEUTICALS LTD.

DEVELOPMENT
	 		 	THE TECHNION RESEARCH & FOUNDATION LTD.
					
	By:	 	 /s/ Silvia Norman
	 		 	By:	 	 /s/ Rita Bruckstein

	Name: Silvia Norman	 		 	Name: Rita Bruckstein
	Date: March 6, 2016	 		 	Date: March 30, 2016


  
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 Prof. Timor Baasov 

Submitted to Eloxx Pharmaceuticals LTD 

Research Plan 

(Continuation for the third year 1.10.2015-30.09.2016) 

Title 
 Development of
Aminoglycose-Based Drug for Treatment of Human Genetic 
 Diseases and Many Forms of Cancer Caused by Nonsense Mutations 

I. Brief Summary of the Second Year’s Research 

The two specific aims were: Rational design and synthesis of new readthrough drugs (Aim #1); Chemical modification of NBs for improved
cell permeability and bioavailability (Aim #2). The main achievements include: 
 (1) We have generated a new series of
pseudodisaccharides NB154 (exhibits unsaturation on ring I) and NB153 (6’,7’-chiral diol) by rational design strategy (employing the docking of NBs into our solved x-ray structures of AGs bound to
the eukaryotic A-site rRNA oligonucleotide model) and demonstrated their improved activity in comparison to their parent compounds. Encouraged, the pseudo-disaccharide NB153 was used as a scaffold for the
generation of two pseudo-trisaccharide structures NB156 and NB157, which then subsequently tested for a series of biological tests. Both were found significantly better than their parent structures NB74 (for NB156) and NB124 (for NB157). Thus, by
using rational design approach we were able for the first time to provide the validation of this design strategy which provided significant activity improvement in comparison to the previous lead structures. In addition, the pseudo-disaccharide
NB154 was used as a scaffold for the generation of the simplest pseudo-trisaccharide structure NB158, which again proved to be better than its parent NB30. 

(3) By developing a simple and robust synthetic scheme for the modification of the developed leads as poly-ester derivatives, we have produced
two such new derivatives Bz-G418 (a prototype structure for the proof-of-concept) and Bz-NB124 which then undergone a series of biological tests. We found that the ex
vivo readthrough activity of Bz-NB124 in Idua-W402X MEFs significantly exceeds that of NB124 at all incubation times and concentrations tested, suggesting improved cell penetration and pharmacokinetics of this new potential pro-drug. 
 II. Proposed Working Plan for the Third Year Research 

Specific Aims 

Aim #1: Rational Design and Synthesis of New Readthrough Drugs. Our design principles integrate the insights from the
second year’s research achievements in our lab along with the insights in other labs in order to construct new classes of compounds by a rational structure-based approach. Several sets of structurally distinct compounds will be included in the
initial library and promising lead compounds will be further refined for better cell permeability and prolonged in-vivo action. The synthesis will use state-of-the-art strategies for the assembly of complex carbohydrate, along with the convenient
up-to-date analytical techniques. 
 Aim #2:
Chemical Modification of NBs for Improved Cell Permeability, Oral Bioavailability and Reduced Toxic Side-Effects. Based on recent developments in aminoglycosides research to produce new antibiotics with reduced toxic side-effects, we
suggest applying these developed strategies on our NBs and generating new series of compounds with improved activity/toxicity ratio – improved therapeutic index. 

Aim #1 – Rational design and synthesis of new readthrough drugs. Based on our second year’s research results, we propose to modify the
developed new compounds as well as to extend our study to more diverse structures with potentially improved suppression activity and lower toxicity. Figure 1 illustrates the structures 

  



  


 



 

  



  















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of our most recently developed leads (Eloxx funded second year’s research) NB156-NB158, along with the proposed new structures NB159-NB165. These new structures are actually the derivatives
of NB158. NB158 serves as the scaffold to which three already established pharmacophores including 6’-(R)-Me, 5”-(S)-Me and N1-AHB groups are sequentially introduced: the only one pharmacophore (compounds NB159, NB160 and NB161), two pharmacophores (compounds NB162, NB163 and NB164) and all three pharmacophores (NB165). The rationale in
selecting NB159-NB165 as potential new leads is based on the following our past observations. First, NB158 exhibits similar to better activity to that of NB30, while its eukaryotic and prokaryotic translation inhibition are significantly lower to
that of NB30. These observations suggest that NB158 may serve better scaffold than NB30 for further development. This expectation is supported by: (i) while the eukaryotic inhibition of translation of NB158 is only about two-fold poorer than that of NB30 (IC50euk values of 70 and 31 μM, respectively) this gap in the
prokaryotic inhibition of translation is increased up two orders of magnitude (IC50prok values of 36.45 and 0.45 μM, respectively),
suggesting significantly increased specificity and selectivity of NB158 towards eukaryotic versus prokaryotic ribosome than that of NB30 (the
IC50prok/IC50euk values of 1.9
and 69 for NB158 and NB30; see Table 1 of the 2nd year’s research report). (ii) Since our previous data indicated that the reduction in prokaryotic ribosome specificity can be correlated with
the reduction of mitochondrial ribosome specificity, the data suggest that the NB158 and its follow-up derivatives NB159-NB165 probably will enjoy with reduced mitochondrial inhibition and subsequently with
reduced toxic side-effects. (iii) Once the synthesis of NB158 has already established in our lab, the generation and subsequent biological tests of the suggested new derivatives NB159-NB165 should be a relatively easy task. 

The synthesis and evaluation of the suggested new structures NB159-NB165 will be done according to our second year’s research report for the synthesis of
NB158 and our previous reports for the introduction of the 6’-(R)-Me, 5”-(S)-Me and N1-AHB groups on the
previously developed NBs. 
 Note: one can argue that since NB156 showed better activity than its parent NB74, why we will not pursue this structure
for further modification (e.g. attachment of N1-AHB) and development as the potential drug. Three arguments: (1) NB156 along with NB157 and NB158 are currently under the cochleotoxicity tests in
Schachts’ lab; the observed data will help us to see the potential therapeutic index of these compounds versus their parent NBs. If the data will found to be satisfactory, we will then attempt to continue their further development as well.
(2) Because the lack of important data on the rescue of the functional protein in various disease models, we are largely hindered to make proposal in this direction (problems to obtain MTA from other collaborative groups). (3) Finally, since
the establishment of the synthesis scheme towards the introduction of chiral 6’,7’-diol in these series of compounds took us much efforts, and the current scheme includes rather several complicated synthetic steps, along with the highly
increased cytotoxicity of the NB157 versus NB124, I decided to put those further perspectives in hold and promote those projects and compounds such as NB159-NB165 (Fig. 1) that I believe and fill that may open us new opportunities and discoveries.

 Aim #2a – Modification of the developed NBs at N1-position for the production of non-ototoxic lead compounds: The major limiting side effects of aminoglycoside antibiotics is permanent hearing impairment, which is detected in approximately 20% of treated patients using conventional
audiometry. Even though, our developed lead NB-compounds were proved in exhibiting significantly reduced ototoxicity potential, this toxicity issue is still somewhat problematic and introduces “red light
mark” for all aminoglycosides for clinical development as a drug. This issue is especially more relevant when the aminoglycoside-based drug is used for the treatment of genetic diseases; because the compound must be administered to the patients
for the lifelong. Therefore, the continuous attempts towards new designer structures towards eliminating their ototoxic effects, while preserving their potent readthrough activity, should be of our top priority. 

Towards these ends I suggest here to apply those most recent developments in this field that provided important and interested results. One of such most
recent approaches considers the modification of aminoglycosides so to reduce the ability of the drug to entry into hair cells via mechanotransducer (MET) channels (Fig 2A) and as such reducing its ototoxic effects.1 In this work, nine derivatives of the aminoglycoside antibiotic sisomicin have been synthesized by modification of the parent drug at N1 position (ring II), at N3’’ position (ring III) and
at both N1 and N3”. The modifications included acylation of the amine moiety(s) either by different simple acyl groups (e.g. acetate or benzoate) or by alkyl- and aryl sulfonyl groups (e.g. methylsulfonyl, arylsulfonyl). It was hypothesized
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exhibit one less positive charge, the compounds can still bind to their ribosomal target with sufficient affinity to exert the required antibacterial activity, while in parallel their entry to
the cochlear cells will be significantly reduced due to inhibition of MET channels. Interestingly, all 9 derivatives were displayed no or reduced ototoxicity and the lead compound N1MS was found 17 times less ototoxic and with significantly reduced
penetration of hair cell MET channels in rat cochlear cultures (Fig 2). Moreover, systemic sisomicin treatment of mice resulted in 75% to 85% hair cell loss and profound hearing loss, whereas N1MS treatment preserved both hair cells and hearing.
These are indeed excellent observations! Note that they did not test whether the observed reduced ototoxicity of N1MS is primarily due its reduced entry into the mitochondria, or may because the reduced inhibition of mitochondrial
translation. Nevertheless the observed data with N1MS is very important and definitely provides support to the concept that the targeted modification of aminoglycoside so to inhibit its entry into the mitochondria through the mechanotransducer
channels provides important new tool for the generation of nonototoxic aminoglycosides. 
 Based on these observations, the first question
that I asked was: why we will not do the similar modifications on our NBs as well? After all, this tool can definitely be supplementary way to further decrease the ototoxicity potential of our NBs, which should be our most important priority. Of
course, the question is how much damage such modification can cause to the readthrough potency of NBs? Note that 3 out 9 compounds synthesized and tested by Hurt et al. exhibited comparable anti E. coli activities to the parent compound
sisomicin.1 This is an excellent observation and encouraged us to pursue this strategy towards synthesis of new derivatives of NBs with diminished ototoxicity. 

 
 



 
 Initially we propose to synthesize the compounds of set1 and set2 structures (Fig. 3). The
only difference between these two sets of compounds is the presence of chiral 5’’-Me group in set2 compounds while this is lack in set1 compounds. The rationale in choosing these
particular structures is that all these 10 different compounds can be easily accessed from the known intermediate compound A as illustrated in Scheme 1. Selective N-acylation of the compound A
with different acylating groups followed by selective acetylation will afford a series of fife different acceptors B-F. Glycosylation of each of these acceptors separately by either the known
trichloroacetimidate (TCAI) donor G or H followed by sequential two deprotecting steps will afford the target library of 10 different compounds of set1 and set2. The final products will then be subjected for the
comparative readthrough and toxicity tests as we performed in our earlier studies. Compounds of set1 are the N1-acyl derivatives of NB74 and the compounds of set2 are similar derivatives of NB124. Therefore,
NB74 and NB124 will used as the parent compounds of the comparative studies of these sets of compounds. The compounds with good readthrough activity and low cytotoxicity will then be subjected for the initial cochleotoxicity tests in the laboratory
of Prof. Jochen Schacht at the University of Michigan (?). 
  
 



 
  
 



 

  

  















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 As the preliminary data in this direction (Master student is working on the project already!)
we have prepared multigram quantities of compound A (Scheme 1) and successfully assembled selected examples of the acceptors B-F in small quantities for the tuning of the these crucial steps. Further coupling
and deprotection steps are under current investigation. 
 Finally, since the lead compound N1MS (Fig. 2)1 is the derivative of sisomicn that has very unique ring I (unsaturated ring), one can argue that structurally this ring may has some critical influence; the combination of ring-I structure with N1-acylation is critical for the efficient inhibition of MET channels by N1MS. This dilemma is supported by the fact that until now except sisomacin no
other aminoglycosides of this class (4,6-disubstituted) or of the 4’,5’-disubstituted class have been reported that their N1-modification could lead (or not)
to the compounds with reduced ototoxicity. To test this hypothesis, we propose to assemble additional set of 3 compounds of set3 (Fig 3). All these compounds exhibit similar unsaturated ring I of sisomicin (and of N1MS) and contain the most
favorable N1-methylsulfonyl group as in the reported lead N1MS. Thus, the likelihood of set3 compounds in exhibiting the desirable reduced ototoxicity is very high. Compound 11 can be easily
accessed from the intermediate compound from the synthesis of our developed NB158 (Fig. 1). Similarly, the compounds 12 and 13 will be accessed from the intermediate pseudo-disaccharide compounds of the synthesis of NB159 and NB162,
respectively. 
  
 



 
 Aim #2b – Modification of the developed NBs at C4’-position for the production of non-ototoxic lead compounds: 
 The second approach that recently been proved as a valid strategy
towards developing new aminoglycoside antibiotics with reduced ototoxic potential is based on the works of Bottger and coworkers.2,3 In this these works the authors demonstrate that simple
alkylation of paromomycin at 4’-OH results new derivatives with similar or little reduced antibacterial activity but with significant reduction in their action on the mammalian cytoplasmic and
mitochondrial ribosomes and subsequently with significant reduction in their ototoxicity potential. These works (and the follow-up publications) especially highlighted two new derivatives of paromomycin Par1 and Par2 (Fig. 5)3 with excellent selectivity at the ribosomal target, promising
antibacterial activity, and little, if any, ototoxicity upon chronic administration (note that in vivo ototoxicity of these lead compounds were tested by our collaborator J. Schacht who is also on the paper!). I would like to further note that even
though they also resolved x-ray crystal structures of several new derivatives in complex with the bacterial ribosome, still they could not provide important structural information why these compounds exhibit
such a large reduction in their ototoxicity potential. And the main reasons mentioned and tested were the selectivity increase of these compounds towards prokaryotic versus mammalian cytoplasmic and mitochondrial ribosomes. They determined the
ribosomal damage index (Fig. 5) and found this damage are especially lower towards mitochondrial and cytoplasmic ribosomes for Par1 and Par2 in comparison to the parent paromomycin. Comparative in vivo ototoxicity test in guinea pigs showed that at
400 mg/kg dose compound Par1 has only little and Par2 no outer hair cell loss. 
  
 



 
  
 



 

  
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 Based on these observations, we suggest testing similar modifications on our NBs with the aim
to gain new derivatives with significantly reduced ototoxicity. Towards these ends we suggest to synthesize the new set4 structures (Fig. 6). Initially, we will use the NB74 as the pseudo-trisaccharide scaffold and by introducing 4’-O-Ethyl, 4’-O-Propyl and 4’-O-Benzyl groups we will generate the target compounds 14-16 as potential leads with substantial read-through activity and reduced ototoxicity. The
acceptors used for the preparation of these compounds will also serve us for the coupling with the second donor exhibiting the chiral methyl group to generate the desired second set of compounds, 17-19
(Fig. 6). The proposed general synthetic scheme towards the assembly of set4 structures is illustrated in Scheme 2. 
 We will use
G418 as starting material to assemble the intermediate disaccharide A (Scheme 2). The rational is to introduce here the 4’,6’-benzylidene protection which can selectively opened by reductive opening
to the 4’-OH intermediate. This intermediate then can be easily alkylated by attaching the desired 4’-ethyl and 4’-propyl alkyl groups selectively at 4’-position to afford the compounds B
and C. Note that the intermediate A cannot be used for the synthesis of other, desired 4’-benzyl derivatives (compounds 16 and 19, Fig. 6); since the other hydroxyls in A have already benzyl
groups as protection, its selective removal from the 4’ position cannot be done. Thus, for the preparation of 16 and 19 we should choose other groups that can be easily removed in the presence of benzyl ether! The acceptors B and
C will then be separately subjected to the glycosylation step by two different donors D and E, followed by the de-protection steps to afford the desired structures 14-15 and 17-18.

  
 



 
 The final products will then be subjected for the comparative readthrough and toxicity tests as we
performed in our earlier studies. Compounds of 14-15 are 4’-alkyl derivatives of NB74 and the compounds 17-18 are similar derivatives of NB124. Therefore, NB74 and NB124 will be used as the parent compounds of the
comparative studies of these sets of compounds. The compounds with good readthrough activity and low cytotoxicity will then be subjected for the initial cochleotoxicity tests in the laboratory of Prof. Jochen Schacht at the University of Michigan
(?). 
 Finally, it is of note that while our previous data suggests that the ex-vivo
tests of cochleotoxicity well correlated to the in vivo ototoxicity data, still this correlation should be considered as a preliminary observation and for the proper ototoxicity evaluation we will need in vivo studies to establish this issue
appropriately. For this reason, the compounds that will show significant reduction in their initial cochleotoxicity tests, will further subjected for the in vivo tests. 

REFERENCES 
  

	(1)	Huth, M. E.; Han, K.; Sotoudeh, K.; Hsieh, Y.-J.; Effertz, T.; Vu, A. a; Verhoeven, S.; Hsieh, M. H.; Greenhouse, R.; Cheng, A. G.; Ricci, A. J. J. Clin. Invest.
2015, 125 (2), 583. 

  

	(2)	Perez-Fernandez, D.; Shcherbakov, D.; Matt, T.; Leong, N. C.; Kudyba, I.; Duscha, S.; Boukari, H.; Patak, R.; Dubbaka, S. R.; Lang, K.; Meyer, M.; Akbergenov, R.; Freihofer, P.; Vaddi, S.; Thommes, P.; Ramakrishnan, V.;
Vasella, A.; Böttger, E. C. Nat. Commun. 2014, 5. 

  

	(3)	Duscha S, Boukari H, Shcherbakov D, Salian S, Silva S, Kendall A, Kato T, Akbergenov R, Perez- Fernandez D, Bernet B, Vaddi S, Thommes P, Schacht J, Crich D, Vasella A, Böttger EC. Identification and evaluation of
improved 4’-O-(alkyl) 4,5-disubstituted 2-deoxystreptamines as next-generation
aminoglycoside antibiotics. MBio. 2014, 5(5):e01827-14. 


  
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 III. Proposed Budget (in US Dollars) and Time Frame 

 

													
	 	  	 The proposed task
	  	 Time Frame
	  	Budget
Requested	 	  	 Remarks
	  	 Notes

	Aim # 1	  		  		  				  		  	PI T. Baasov
		  	Synthesis of selected members from NB159-NB165.	  	6-12 months	  	$	15,000	 	  	One postdoc/student dedicated.	  	
		  	Biological evaluations of all the new developed compounds.	  	6-12 months	  	$	15,000	 	  	One postdoc/student dedicated.	  	
						
		  		  	Total Aim #1:	  	$	30,000	 	  		  	
		  		  	  
	  	  
	  
	 	  		  	
	Aim # 2a	  		  		  				  		  	
		  	Synthesis of selected structures from Set2-set3 series	  	8-12 months	  	$	10,000	 	  	One postdoc/student dedicated.	  	
	Aim # 2b	  		  		  				  		  	
		  	Synthesis of selected structures of set4 series.	  	6-12 months	  	$	10,000	 	  	One postdoc/student dedicated.	  	
						
		  		  	Total Aim #2:	  	$	20,000	 	  		  	
		  		  	  
	  	  
	  
	 	  		  	
		  		  	Grand total for the Aims # 1&2:	  	$	50,000	 	  		  	
		  		  	  
	  	  
	  
	 	  		  	

 NOTE that the budget can only allow selected structures synthesis and evaluation and also does not include ex vivo
studies (functional protein synthesis in MEFs for example) and in vivo studies required for the project completion and only can be done with additional funding of collaborators labs! 

IV. Detailed Budget (in US Dollars) 

Personnel: 
  

 

													
	 	  	 Role in project
	  	 	  	% Time	 	  	Salary	 
	1.	  	Lab. Assistant	  	Lab. Assistant	  	 	50	 	  	 	12,000	 
	2.	  	Postdoctorant	  	Researcher	  	 	50	 	  	 	12,000	 
		  	 Total:
	  		  				  	 	24,000	 

 Supplies: 
  

					
	 1. Chemicals, absolute & deuterated solvents
	  	 	18,000	 
	 2. Lab. equipment, glassware, plastic ware
	  	 	2,000	 
	 3. Biochemicals
	  	 	2,000	 
	 4. In vitro and ex vivo assay kits
	  	 	2,000	 
	 5. Chromatography material for various purifications
	  	 	1,000	 
	 6. NMR and Mass Spectrometry tests
	  	 	1,000	 
	 Total:
	  	 	26,000	 
		  	  
	  
	 
	 Grand Total:
	  	$	50,000	 


  
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 Budget Justification: 

The requests for laboratory assistant and postdoctorant for the duration of the grant period are in recognition of the amount of work required in this project.
Considerable effort will be expended in the syntheses of various lead compounds discussed in the proposal, their structure determination and analysis, assays for their activity. The request for materials, supplies, and chemicals/biochemicals is an
important part for a successful development and completion of the project. 
 V. Investigators’ Curriculum Vitae 

Surname:                Baasov       
         First name:    Timor 

Birthdate:        January 3, 1954 

(a) Education Background 
  

							
	 From-To
	  	Institution	  	Area of specialization	 	Degree
				
	 1981-1986
	  	Weizmann Institute of Science	  	Chemistry	 	Ph. D.
				
	 1977-1979
	  	Tel-Aviv University	  	Chemistry	 	M. Sc.
				
	 1975-1977
	  	Tel-Aviv University	  	Chemistry	 	B. Sc.

 Major research interest: Carbohydrate chemistry, Bioorganic and medicinal chemistry, Drug design and
development, Rational design of substrate and inhibitors, Mechanistic enzymology. 
 (b) Employment 

 

							
	From-To	  	Institution	  	Research area	  	Title
				
	2004-	  	Technion	  	Bioorganic Chemistry	  	Professor
				
	3/1998-8/1998	  	The Scripps Research Institute, Cal	  	Bioorganic Chemistry	  	Visiting Prof.
				
	1998-2003	  	Technion	  	Bioorganic Chemistry	  	Assoc. Prof.
				
	1990-1998	  	Technion	  	Bioorganic Chemistry	  	Senior Lecturer
				
	1988-1990	  	Technion	  	Bioorganic Chemistry	  	Lecturer
				
	1986-1988	  	Harvard University	  	Bioorganic Chemistry	  	Post-Doct. Res.

 VI. T. Baasov - List of Publications last three years (2012-2015) 

 

	1.	D. Wang , V. Belakhov, J. Kandasamy, T. Baasov, S-C. Li, Y-T Li, D.M. Bedwell, K.M. Keeling. The designer aminoglycoside NB84
significantly reduces glycosaminoglycan accumulation associated with MPS I-H in the Idua-W392X mouse. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism 105, 116-125
(2012). 

  

	2.	T. Goldmann, N. Overlack, F. Möller, V. Belakhov, M. van Wyk, T. Baasov, U. Wolfrum, and K. Nagel-Wolfrum. A comparative evaluation of NB30, NB54 and PTC124 in translational read-through efficacy for
treatment of an USH1C nonsense mutation. EMBO Molecular Medicine, 4, 1-14, (2012). 

  

	3.	J. Kandasamy, D. Atia-Glikin, E. Shulman, K. Shapira, M. Shavit, V. Belakhov T. Baasov. Increased Selectivity toward Cytoplasmic versus Mitochondrial Ribosome Confers Improved Efficiency of Synthetic
Aminoglycosides in Fixing Damaged Genes: A Strategy for Treatment of Genetic Diseases Caused by Nonsense Mutations. J. Med. Chem. 55(23), 10630-10643 (2012). 


 

	4.	M. Schalev, J. Kandasamy, N. Skalka, V. Belakhov, R. Rosin-Arbesfeld, T. Baasov. Development of generic immunoassay for the detection of a series of aminoglycosides with
6’-OH group for the treatment of genetic diseases in biological samples. Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis. 75, 33-40 (2013).


  

	5.	K.M. Keeling, D. Wang, Y. Dai, S. Murugesan, B. Chenna, J. Clark; V. Belakhov, J. Kandasamy, S.E. Velu, T. Baasov, D.M. Bedwell. Attenuation of Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay Enhances In Vivo Nonsense Suppression.
PLoS ONE 8 (4), e60478 (2013). 


  
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	6.	M. Schalev, J. Kondo, D. Kopelyanskiy, C.L. Jaffe, N. Adir, T. Baasov. Identification of the molecular attributes required for Aminoglycoside activity against Leishmania. PNAS 110 (33), 13333-13338
(2013). 

  

	7.	M. Kamei, K. Kasperski, M. Fuller, E. Parkinson-Lawrence, L. Karageorgos,, V. Belakhov, T. Baasov, J.J. Hopwood, D.J. Brooks. Aminoglycoside-Induced Premature Stop Codon Read-Through of Mucopolysaccharidosis Type
I Patients Q70X and W402X Mutations in Cultured Cells. Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease Reports. 13, 139-147 (2014) 


 

	8.	X. Xue, V. Mutyam, L.P. Tang, S. Biswas, M. Du, L. A. Jackson, Y. Dai, V. Belakhov, M. Shalev, F. Chen, J. Schacht, R. Bridges, T. Baasov, J. Hong, D. M. Bedwell, S.M. Rowe. Synthetic Aminoglycosides
Efficiently Suppress CFTR Nonsense Mutations and Are Enhanced by Ivacaftor. Am. J. Respir. Cell Mol. Biol. 50 (4), 805- 816 (2014). 


 

	9.	E. Shulman, V. Belakhov, G. Wei, A. Kendall, E. G. Meyron-Holtz, D. Ben-Shachar, J. Schacht, T. Baasov. Designer aminoglycosides that selectively inhibit cytoplasmic rather
than mitochondrial ribosomes show decreased ototoxicity: a strategy for the treatment of genetic diseases. J. Biol. Chem. 289(4), 2318-2330 (2014). 

  


	10.	G. Gunn, Y. Dai, M. Du, V. Belakhov, J. Kandasamy, T.R. Schoeb, T. Baasov, D.M. Bedwell, K.M. Keeling. Long-term nonsense suppression therapy with NB84 moderates MPS IH disease progression. Molec. Genet.
Metabol. 111, 374-381 (2014). 

  

	11.	M. Shalev, T. Baasov. When Proteins Start to Make Sense: Fine-tuning of Aminoglycosides for PTC Suppression Therapy. Med. Chem. Commun. 5, 1092-1105 (2014). Invited Review Perspective
Article 

  

	12.	M. Schalev, H. Rozenberg, B. Smolkin, A. Nasereddin, D. Kopelyanskiy, V. Belakhov, T. Schrepfer, J. Schacht, C. L. Jaffe, N. Adir, T. Baasov. Structural Basis for Selective Targeting of Leishmanial Ribosomes:
Aminoglycoside Derivatives as Promising Therapeutics. Nucleic Acids Research, 43(17), 8601-8613 (2015). 

  

	13.	K.K. Wang, L.K. Stone, T.D. Lieberman, M. Shavit, T. Baasov*, R. Kishony*. A Hybrid Antibiotic Restricts Evolutionary Paths to Resistance. Molecular Biology and Evolution 2015 (accepted).


  

	14.	F. Meng, D. Srisai, X. Zhou, W. Cheng, S. Dong, V. Belakhov, Y. Xu, R.D. Palmiter, T. Baasov, Qi Wu. A Nonsense Suppression-Based Gene Targeting System Reveals Novel Insights in Neural Control of Feeding and
Metabolism. 2015 (submitted). 

 Chapters in Books and other Publications 

 

	1.	V. Mutyam, X. Xue, X. Jackson, L. Hong, S. Biswas, D. Bridges, T. Baasov, V. Belakhov, D. Bedwell, S. Rowe. Use of transepithelial conductance as a screening technique for identification of drugs that promote
readthrough of premature stop codons. Pediatric Pulmonology 48, page 232 (supplement 36; meeting abstract). ISSN: 8755-6863 (2013). 

  

	2.	K. Nagel-Wolfrum, T. Baasov, U. Wolfrum. Therapy strategies for Usher syndrome Type 1C in the retina. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. Vol. 801, pp.
741-747 (2014). 

  

	3.	T. Baasov, M. Fridman. Foreword-The 17th European Carbohydrate Symposium-EuroCarb17. Carbohydrate Research 389, 1 (2014). (Guest Editor of the
special issue.) 

  

	4.	S. Garneau-Tsodikova, T. Baasov. Editorial – Carbohydrates Themed Issue. Med. Chem. Commun., 5, 1010- 1013 (2014). (Guest Editor of the special issue.) 


 

	5.	T. Baasov, Micha Fridman and Daniel Werz. Carbohydrates: Special Issue in Honor of the 2014 Wolf Prize Laureate in Chemistry, Professor Chi-Huey Wong. Guest Editors of the
special issue. Editorial - Isr. J. Chem. 55, 253 (2015). 


  
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