Indianapolis, Ind. – Alois Alzheimer recognized more than a century ago the role of neuroinflammation in the development of the disease that would bear his name. “If you actually go back to his original drawings, he was drawing the cells, which today we know are microglia,” immune cells of the...
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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Neurona Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company advancing regenerative cell therapy candidates for the treatment of neurological disorders, today announced the successful completion of a $120 million financing co-led by Viking Global Investors and Cormorant Asset Management with participation from new and existing investors, including The Column...
WUHAN, China and SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Neurophth Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that the last patient has been enrolled in Phase I/II clinical trial of Opvika® (Esonadogene Imvoparvovec) for the treatment of Leber hereditary optic neuropathy caused by ND4 mutation (ND4-LHON). Neurophth is conducting a Phase I/II, single-arm, multi-center study aimed...
Jerusalem, Israel – In a compelling Genomic Press Interview published in Brain Medicine on September 25, 2024, Professor Hermona Soreq of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel unveils the profound implications of her groundbreaking research on the cholinergic system and small RNA regulators in brain-body communication. Prof. Soreq, holder...
HERZLIYA, Israel – NeuroSense Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing treatments for neurodegenerative diseases such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), based on a novel combination drug therapy aiming at slowing or halting the disease progression, announces the successful completion of its first Phase IIa study. The study, NST002, aimed at establishing various safety...
Toronto, Canada – Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have found that inflammation in an immune cell may be responsible in part for some severe symptoms in a group of rare genetic conditions called lysosomal storage diseases (LSDs). LSDs affect about one in 7,700 live births worldwide. Children...
TORONTO, Canada – A new round of clinical trials supported by the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) will harness a unique opportunity to test some of the newest treatment strategies for a range of different cancers. OICR has announced two new clinical trials as part of its Window-of-Opportunity (WOO)...
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Genentech, a member of the Roche Group (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY), today announced new exploratory 2-year longer-term data from Part 2 of SUNFISH, a global placebo-controlled study evaluating Evrysdi™ (risdiplam) in people aged 2-25 years with Type 2 or non-ambulant Type 3 spinal muscular...
New Rochelle, NY – Scientists from Spirovant Sciences describe SP-101, a novel adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy for the treatment of cystic fibrosis (CF) in the peer-reviewed journal Human Gene Therapy. They also showed that after single dose inhaled delivery of SP-101, SP-101 vector genomes were detected throughout the respiratory tract...
Barcelona, Spain – Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) and the Fundación Biofisica Bizkaia (FBB, located in Biofisika Institute) have developed an artificial intelligence which can differentiate cancer cells from normal cells, as well as detect...