Los Angeles, CA – The gene SYNGAP1, the variants of which are top risk factors for Autism Apectrum Disorder (ASD), has previously unappreciated effects on the developing brain, according to a new study published in Nature Neuroscience. The study shows how disease-causing variants of SYNGAP1, thought primarily to affect synapses between mature neurons, could disrupt...
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BOSTON, Mass. — The Barth Syndrome Foundation (BSF), the only patient advocacy organization dedicated to Barth syndrome and saving lives around the world through education, advances in treatment and finding a cure, today announced that it is petitioning the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to review the New Drug...
Boston — The Barth Syndrome Foundation (BSF), the only patient advocacy organization dedicated to Barth syndrome and saving lives around the world through education, advances in treatment and finding a cure, recognizes the first annual Barth Syndrome Awareness Day. Barth syndrome is an ultra-rare, life-threatening, genetic disease primarily affecting males....
Boston — The Barth Syndrome Foundation (BSF), the only patient advocacy organization dedicated to Barth syndrome and saving lives around the world through education, advances in treatment and finding a cure, recognizes the first annual Barth Syndrome Awareness Day. Barth syndrome is an ultra-rare, life-threatening, genetic disease primarily affecting males....
PLEASANTON, Calif. & NANJING, China – IASO Biotherapeutics (IASO Bio) and Innovent Biologics, Inc. (Innovent, HKEX: 01801), today jointly announced that the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation (BTD) for CT103A, an investigational chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy...
SAN FRANCISCO and SUZHOU – Innovent Biologics, Inc. (Innovent) (HKEX: 01801), a world-class biopharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and commercializes high-quality medicines for the treatment of cancer, metabolic, autoimmune and other major diseases, and IASO Biotherapeutics (IASO Bio), today jointly announce that the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of China’s National Medical Products...
Baltimore, Maryland – The Bespoke Gene Therapy Consortium, a public-private collaboration involving the National Institutes of Health, FDA, industry and patient groups intended to help accelerate the delivery of AAV-based gene therapies for rare diseases, is making slow but steady progress, a representative said at the 2024 American Society of...
WILMINGTON, Del. — Positive high-level results from an interim analysis of the ECHO Phase III trial showed AstraZeneca’s CALQUENCE® (acalabrutinib) in combination with standard-of-care chemoimmunotherapy, bendamustine and rituximab, demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival (PFS) versus standard of care in previously untreated adult patients with...
Madrid, Spain – A few years ago, a patient was cured of multiple myeloma after being treated for hepatitis C, astounding researchers from the group led by Joaquín Martínez, from the H12O-CNIO Haematological Tumours Clinical Research Unit, a collaboration between the Hospital 12 de Octubre (H12O) and the National Cancer...
The cohort of 7000 rare diseases is complex, heterogeneous and dynamic. Newer conditions are being identified and reported regularly in the medical literature on a day to day basis. For a long time, the medical fraternity, researchers, and policymakers were unaware of the wide spectrum of rare diseases and the...