NEWARK, Calif. – CymaBay Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBAY), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing therapies for liver and other chronic diseases with high unmet need, today announced that medical and clinical leader Dennis D. Kim, MD, MBA, is joining the company as Chief Medical Officer. “Improving patient lives is...
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This weekend community members are uniting in the Gallatin Valley to raise awareness about a disease that currently has no cure. Researchers say cystic fibrosis is the most common genetic disease of children and young adults and over time weakens a person’s lungs and heart. Eight-year-old Carsten Manring of Three...
BETHESDA, Md. — The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation announced that it will provide up to $15 million to Prime Medicine for preclinical research into gene editing for cystic fibrosis. Prime Medicine is using a gene editing technology called prime editing — a technology that enables insertions or deletions of small segments of...
LOS ANGELES – CytRx Corporation (OTCQB: CYTR) (“CytRx” or the “Company”), a specialized biopharmaceutical company focused on research and development for the oncology and neurodegenerative disease categories, today highlighted that Orphazyme A/S (NASDAQ: ORPH) (“Orphazyme”) has announced the appointment of Christophe Bourdon as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective as...
PHOENIX, Ariz. — It seems everyone is soliciting donations for Nov. 30’s Giving Tuesday, the global generosity movement that falls each year on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. Created in 2012 as a philanthropic response to consumerism and the buying frenzy of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday unleashes the...
London, England – There are ~7,000 rare diseases that together affect 300 million people. For the vast majority of these patients there are no approved treatments, representing a huge unmet medical need. Advances in the understanding of the molecular basis of rare diseases, the continued development of therapeutic platforms such...
When America Alcantara of Austin quit ducking behind her mother and burying her face in her pudgy hands, she gleefully snapped photographs of the adults she had met an hour earlier in a medical office and spun in every empty chair on Monday. The energetic 7-year-old will slow down for...
Los Angeles, CA – As Parkinson’s disease diagnoses continue to rise in the U.S., limited patient access to movement disorder specialists means the job of delivering the often-devastating, lifechanging news falls on primary care physicians or community neurologists who may not have the necessary expertise for this sensitive task. A...
DAKAR, Senegal — World-famous singer Youssou Ndour has a voice that is recognized across the globe. Now he’s using that voice to amplify the fight against malaria in his home country of Senegal with a new song “Xeex Sibbiru” (“Fight Malaria” in Wolof) and a multi-year partnership with Malaria No...
Sitting in his favorite tiny red wooden chair, Teddy Christiansen peers out the window, smiling as he watches his older sister, Raelyn, play in the front yard. Before long, Teddy springs from the chair, itching to go outside himself. The bespectacled 33-month-old is everything he should be at his age:...