Researchers funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) have found that an organ transplant drug might one day be used to treat meningioma, a type of brain tumour. The drug also could be used to treat neurofibromatosis type 2, a rare disease associated with meningiomas and...
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Los Angeles, Calif. – A traumatic brain injury (TBI) can quadruple your risk for developing dementia and increase your chances of developing neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS. In a new study published in Cell Stem Cell, USC scientists use lab-grown human brain structures known as organoids to offer insights into...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Organovo Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: ONVO), a clinical stage biotechnology company focused on developing FXR314 in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including ulcerative colitis, based on demonstration of clinical promise in three-dimensional (3D) human tissues, today announced the presentation of preclinical data related to the company’s FXR314 development...
SHANGHAI, China and ROSELAND, New Jersey – Oricell Therapeutics (Oricell), a clinical-stage biotechnology company, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the company’s Investigational New Drug (IND) application for OriCAR-017 for patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (R/R MM). OriCAR-017 is a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T...
Oricell Therapeutics Co., Ltd, a China-based innovative pharmaceutical company committed to the development of tumor cellular immunotherapeutics, today announced the close of a $45M Series B1 investment round after the completion of a $125M Series B fund-raise in July 2022
Espoo, Finland – Orion presented last week at the 2024 ASCO GU Cancers Symposium a poster with additional data from the ongoing Phase II CYPIDES trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of ODM-208 (or MK-5684), an investigational, oral CYP11A1 inhibitor, in heavily pretreated patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC)...
QUINCY, Mass. – The Orphan Drug Act (ODA) celebrates its birthday on January 3. The year 2024 marks 41 years of revolutionizing drug development for rare diseases and helping millions of patients in the process. More than 25 million Americans have some kind of rare disease, defined as a condition...
ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill. — Orsini Specialty Pharmacy has been selected by AstraZeneca and Ionis as the exclusive specialty pharmacy partner for WAINUA™ (eplontersen), an FDA-approved treatment for adults living with hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloid polyneuropathy (commonly referred to as hATTR-PN or ATTRv-PN). WAINUA is a subcutaneous injection that can be self-administered,...
ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill. – Orsini Specialty Pharmacy announced today that it is now dispensing tiopronin, the first available generic version, in the US, of THIOLA® (tiopronin). Tiopronin is a reducing and complexing thiol indicated, in combination with high fluid intake, alkali, and diet modification, for the prevention of cystine stone formation...
Osaka, Japan – It might start simply, with a cough or sneeze…but in some cases, the flu virus can make its way to your brain, causing serious symptoms or even death through a disease known as influenza-associated encephalopathy (IAE). Now, in a study published in Acta Neuropathologica, researchers have revealed...