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ALBANY, N.Y. & SHANGHAI, China — Drug Farm, a private biotechnology company utilizing genetics and artificial intelligence technologies to discover and develop innovative, immune-modulating therapies, today announced that the first human participants have been dosed in a clinical trial (NCT06395285) of DF-003 in patients with ROSAH syndrome. DF-003 is a...
GUILFORD, Conn. & SHANGHAI, China – Drug Farm announced today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Investigational New Drug (IND) application of DF-003, a first-in-class, oral, potent, highly selective alpha-kinase 1 (ALPK1) inhibitor for clinical evaluation in ROSAH syndrome patients. The trial will assess the safety,...
GUILFORD, Conn. — Drug Farm, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Rare Pediatric Disease (RPD) Designation for the company’s alpha-kinase 1 (ALPK1) inhibitor, DF-003, to treat patients with ROSAH (retinal dystrophy, optic nerve edema, splenomegaly, anhidrosis and headache ) Syndrome. DF-003...
San Antonio, Texas – A drug effective in treating breast cancer shows new promise in addressing breast cancer with brain metastases or recurrent glioblastoma, as reported by results of a prospective window-of-opportunity trial at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio). The window...
New York, NY – A drug currently in clinical trials as a cancer therapy can also stimulate pancreatic beta cells to secrete insulin, revealing a previously unknown mechanism for insulin regulation in type 2 diabetes, according to a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The preclinical discovery, reported Nov....
Iowa City, Iowa – A new study suggests that certain drugs commonly used to treat enlarged prostate may also decrease the risk for dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). This observational finding may seem surprising, but it mirrors previous work by the University of Iowa Health Care team that links the drugs...
Washington, DC – A protein known to play a role in growth of some types of leukemia appears to have a mixed function in breast cancer development, say researchers from the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC). The findings, presented at the annual meeting of the...
DURHAM, N.C. — Glen Jernigan will meet his bone marrow donor for the first time on June 20 at the Duke Adult Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Program’s Patient Reunion. In 2005, Jernigan was diagnosed with aplastic anemia and recalls having more than a hundred blood transfusions before receiving...
DURHAM, N.C. – Though exceedingly rare, some people diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) partially or fully recover from the lethal neurodegenerative disease. A better understanding of this baffling phenomenon, reported in medical literature for at least 60 years, could point to potential new treatment approaches. To that end, researchers...