Our laboratory has developed an approved United
States Food and Drug Administration drug library set, and a non-regulated
dietary supplement library. The Formulary for Drug Activity
(FDA2000) drug library is currently being screened in an oxidant
injury model, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in vitro
models, Parkinson's Disease in vivo model, Alzheimer's
Disease in vitro model, Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) in
vitro model, yeast expression model, and a renal injury model.
From all the drug screens/models in our laboratory and with our
collaborators we have identified a subset of drugs that provide
beneficial outcomes in all of the models tested. To further investigate
the role of these drugs in providing a beneficial outcome in the
models, we are performing microarray (gene chip) analysis on the
drugs.