Our Opinion

Shuttle Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. is on the Cruelty-Free Investing usage of animals list because they undertake pre-clinical studies on animals to examine the safety profile of their medications.

Supporting Evidence:

The company stated in the following press release that they use animals for drug testing.

“On March 16, 2023, Shuttle Pharmaceuticals Inc. (“Shuttle Pharma”), a Maryland corporation and the wholly-owned subsidiary of Shuttle Pharmaceuticals Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), entered into a research agreement (the “Research Agreement”) with Georgetown University (“Georgetown”) for testing small molecule radiation sensitizers and immune activation candidates discovered and developed by Shuttle Pharma in cell-based and animal xenograft models.” Read the following article

Company Description

Shuttle Pharmaceuticals Holdings, Inc., a clinical stage pharmaceutical company, develops novel therapies to cure cancers. It develops Ropidoxuridine, an oral halogenated pyrimidine to treat patients with brain tumors and sarcomas, SP-1-161, an HDAC inhibitor that initiates the mutated in ataxia-telangiectasia response pathway for radiation sensitizing cancer cells and protecting normal cells; SP-2-225, a pre-clinical class IIb that effects on the regulation of the immune system; and SP-1-303, a pre-clinical selective Class I HDAC for the treatment of ER positive cancers. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Rockville, Maryland.

Company Website: https://shuttlepharma.com