KELOWNA, Canada – Tryp Therapeutics Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing intravenous-infused psilocin (the active metabolite of psilocybin) for diseases with high unmet medical needs, is pleased to announce that the first patient has been dosed in a Phase 2a clinical trial being conducted by the University of...
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Researchers at Tulane University, in collaboration with Corgenix Medical Corporation, a worldwide developer and marketer of diagnostic test kits, have received a five-year $7.07 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for continued development of detection kits for Lassa viral hemorrhagic fever, a serious disease spread by contact...
Munich, Germany – Tumors actively prevent the formation of immune responses by so-called cytotoxic T cells, which are essential in combating cancer. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) Hospital have now uncovered for the first time how this exactly happens. The study in...
Mountain View, Calif. — Turn Biotechnologies, a cell rejuvenation company developing novel mRNA medicines to cure untreatable, age-related conditions, announced that Anja Krammer, Chief Executive Officer, will present a corporate overview at the Guggenheim Healthcare Talks: Genomic Medicines and Rare Disease Days on Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at 1 p.m....
New York, NY – Across industry and academia, many people working to discover new treatments have expertise won through years of formal education and benchwork. But there’s also a faster, harsher path to a very particular scientific expertise: a rare disease diagnosis for oneself or a loved one. Consider Sam...
One year ago, an Idaho Falls couple was shocked to hear doctors say their twin boys were dying from a rare disease that eats at the muscle. Friends and family want to make sure that for however long the Devereaux boys live, their lives are full of joy and comfort....
Toronto, Ontario – The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) and the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) launched a new group to lay the groundwork for connecting global neuroscience and genomic data. Answering data-driven questions in neuroscience means dealing with complexity: in types of data, data management systems, the...
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Two five-year grants totaling more than $6 million from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) will help The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James) researchers and colleagues at other institutions better understand acute...
PARIS — Two landmark clinical trials reported today at the Union meeting showed that an oral antibiotic taken for six months once-daily substantially reduced the risk of developing drug-resistant TB. The antibiotic levofloxacin safely reduced the risk of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) disease in children by 56%, researchers from the...
Bochum, Germany – A research team from the Department of Medical and Molecular Virology at Ruhr University Bochum monitored and treated two patients with chronic hepatitis E with a combination of sofosbuvir and ribavirin after they had not previously responded to ribavirin alone. “In both cases, the combination therapy was...