LA JOLLA, CA—People who suffer from Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, a rare inherited cancer syndrome, develop gastrointestinal polyps and are predisposed to colon cancer and other tumor types. Carefully tracing the cellular chain-of-command that links nutrient intake to cell growth (and which is interrupted in Peutz-Jeghers syndrome), allowed researchers at the Salk...
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Hunterian Medicine LLC, a gene-editing and gene therapy company, has been awarded a Therapeutics Development Award by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The award, through the Foundation’s Path to a Cure initiative that seeks to replace, restore or repair cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) genes, will support Hunterian’s concentrated efforts...
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have discovered how the mutated huntingtin gene acts on the nervous system to create the devastation of Huntington’s disease. The report of their findings is available in Nature Neuroscience online. The researchers were able to show that the mutated...
HONG KONG, SHANGHAI and FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — HUTCHMED (China) Limited announced that the New Drug Application for sovleplenib for the treatment of adult patients with primary immune thrombocytopenia (“ITP”) has been accepted for review and granted priority review by the China National Medical Products Administration (“NMPA”). Sovleplenib is a...
HONG KONG and SHANGHAI and FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — HUTCHMED (China) Limited (“HUTCHMED”) (Nasdaq/AIM:HCM; HKEX:13) today announces that the New Drug Application (“NDA”) for TAZVERIK® (tazemetostat) has been granted conditional approval in China for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory (“R/R”) follicular lymphoma (“FL”) with EZH2 mutation who...
HONG KONG, SHANGHAI, China and FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — HUTCHMED (China) Limited today announces that the marketing approval of ELUNATE® (fruquintinib) by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board of Hong Kong for the treatment of adult patients with previously treated metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC). ELUNATE® is a selective oral inhibitor of...
This is the second indication for Hiyasta® in Japan following adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (A TLL) SAN DIEGO – HUYABIO International, the leader in accelerating the global development of China’s pharmaceutical innovations, today announced the regulatory approval of HBI-8000, brand name Hiyasta®, monotherapy for the treatment of relapsed or refractory (R/R)...
HyVIS, the European project coordinated by the IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology), is about to start. By combining nanotechnology and optics, it will develop bionic synapses for retinal prostheses, designed to restore sight in people suffering from diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration (AMD)....
BUDAPEST, Hungary – HYD LLC has done pioneering work in the field of research on deuterium depletion and of developments based on that, its innovative activity laid the fundaments of a novel pharma and food industry. Hungarian molecular biologist, Gábor Somlyai PhD, in the early ‘90s foremost started to investigate...
INDIANAPOLIS — Clinical research led by Indiana University School of Medicine investigators and their collaborators in Uganda has revealed that hydroxyurea significantly reduces infections in children with sickle cell anemia. Their latest findings enhance strong evidence of hydroxyurea’s effectiveness and could ultimately reduce death in children in Africa, the continent...