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...
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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...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: ACAD) today announced that Health Canada has accepted its New Drug Submission (NDS) for trofinetide for the treatment of Rett syndrome, a rare neurodevelopmental disorder. Health Canada has granted Priority Review for Acadia’s submission. “Rett syndrome is a profoundly debilitating and complex...
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...
St. Louis, MO – A drug used to treat children with epilepsy prevents brain tumor formation and growth in two mouse models of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), according to a study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. NF1 is a genetic condition that causes tumors...
Uppsala, Sweden – People who have had the herpes virus at some point in their lives are twice as likely to develop dementia compared to those who have never been infected. A new study from Uppsala University confirms previous research on whether herpes can be a possible risk factor for...