Year 1

The project objective is to design, synthesize and test a sodium-channel inhibitor analog that selectively inhibits the sodium channel and not the potassium channel in patient-derived IPSCs. The strategy is to first work out the approach with wild-type human IPSCs in advance of the patient-derived cells. The status is that the milestones for Year 1 have largely been accomplished. The achievements for this reporting period include nearly locking down the IPSC protocol, developing ultra high throughput kinetic analysis of human cardiomyocytes, developing an enantioselective synthesis of sodium-channel inhibitors and analogs and identifying from a pool of only 49 compounds, a promising sodium-channel inhibitor that provides insight into selective sodium channel inhibition.