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BOSTON – AbFero Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately-held clinical stage pharmaceutical company dedicated to treating diseases of iron overload, today announced the initiation of a Phase 1 study of its lead iron chelator, SP-420, in myelodysplastic (MDS) and myelofibrosis patients (MF) with transfusional iron overload (TIO). “The opening of this trial...
TOULOUSE, France – ABIONYX Pharma (FR0012616852 – ABNX – PEA PME eligible), a new generation biotech company dedicated to innovative therapies for patients, today announces positive clinical results from CER-001 in the LCAT (lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase) deficiency disease published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The patient with inherited mutations in the lecithin-cholesterol...
PARIS, FRANCE – Abivax SA (Euronext Paris:ABVX))(NASDAQ:ABVX), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing therapeutics that harness the body’s natural regulatory mechanisms to stabilize the immune response in patients with chronic inflammatory diseases, today announced that four scientific abstracts on its lead drug candidate, obefazimod for the treatment of moderately to...
Patient registries collect information about the health status of people with a certain disease. They are particularly important for rare diseases such as Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS), bringing together a small patient population and gathering information about how the disease affects them. Researchers in academia and pharmaceutical companies can then use this...
– Trofinetide met co-primary efficacy endpoints demonstrating statistically significant improvement over placebo in the Rett Syndrome Behaviour Questionnaire (RSBQ) (p=0.0175) and the Clinical Global Impression of Improvement (CGI-I) (p=0.0030) – Trofinetide met key secondary endpoint demonstrating statistically significant improvement over placebo in CSBS-DP-IT–Social (p=0.0064), caregiver scale of ability to communicate...
According to the results of a phase 1/2 study, the Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor acalabrutinib was safe and efficacious, with durable remissions, in patients with previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). The findings were reported in Blood. The single-arm study, ACE-CL-001 (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02029443), evaluated efficacy and safety of acalabrutinib monotherapy...
Acasti Pharma Inc., a late-stage, specialty pharma company advancing three clinical stage drug candidates addressing rare and orphan diseases, recognizes and celebrates Rare Disease Day (February 28), as established by the European Organization for Rare Diseases.
South San Francisco, Calif. – At Denali Therapeutics, where I serve as chief medical officer and head of development, we are eager to develop new treatments for progressive and debilitating neuronopathic mucopolysaccharidoses diseases with our novel technology. We are not alone—several other biopharma companies also have drug candidates that have...
CDER’s Accelerating Rare disease Cures (ARC) Program harnesses CDER’s collective expertise and activities to provide strategic overview and coordination of CDER’s rare disease activities. CDER’s ARC Program is governed by leadership from across CDER’s Office of the Center Director, Office of New Drugs, and the Office of Translational Sciences. The program...