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San Francisco, CA – Children and adults with rare, deadly genetic diseases have fresh hope for curative therapies, thanks to a new collaboration between the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) and Danaher Corporation, a global life sciences and diagnostics innovator. The new Danaher-IGI Beacon for CRISPR Cures center will use genome...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Biogen Inc. (Nasdaq: BIIB) today announced new research supporting the continued development of an investigational higher dose of SPINRAZA® (nusinersen) and additional data reinforcing the strength of SPINRAZA’s clinical profile in improving the lives of individuals with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) over the long term. These data...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & SINGAPORE – Sunbird Bio, a biotechnology company developing proprietary protein- and blood-based technologies to improve diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders and early-stage cancer, today announced new data demonstrating that their APEX (Amplified Plasmonic EXosomes) amyloid beta (Aβ) test, the company’s investigational blood-based diagnostic in Alzheimer’s disease,...
ALLSCHWIL, Switzerland – The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced results from a post-hoc pooled analysis of the Phase 3 GRIPHON and Phase 3b TRITON clinical trials evaluating the impact of early initiation of UPTRAVI® (selexipag) on disease progression, in a large population of PAH patients. Featured...
Basel – Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced results from the final analysis of the phase IIIb STASEY study, which confirm the favourable safety profile of Hemlibra® (emicizumab), consistent with the phase III HAVEN clinical programme.[1],[2],[3],[4] In the analysis, no new safety signals were identified with longer-term Hemlibra...
New data from the phase II CITYSCAPE trial show encouraging results with Roche’s novel anti-TIGIT tiragolumab plus Tecentriq After 2.5 years median follow-up, pre-planned exploratory analyses in the PD-L1-high population show clinically meaningful results, with overall survival not yet reached and continued progression-free survival improvement for the combination compared with...
Ingelheim/Germany — New data presented today at the Movement Disorder Society’s 13th International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders (MDS) further confirms high therapeutic benefit of Mirapexin®/Sifrol® (pramipexole) once-daily, extended release formulation (also referred to as prolonged release formulation). The trial, performed in patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD),...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. – PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTCT) today announced data from the first study on the impact of caring for a child with the ultra-rare genetic disorder, aromatic L-Amino acid decarboxylase deficiency (AADC-d). Results show that caregivers spend almost every waking moment caring for a child with AADC-d,...