In the midst of a global pandemic, it’s easy to forget that there are other terrible diseases in the world, ones that we know very little about. Consider amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — ALS. Also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, ALS is an illness whose outcome is never in doubt. The...
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WASHINGTON – Following Amylyx’s announcement that it intends to submit a New Drug Application (NDA) for AMX0035, The ALS Association today urges the Food and Drug Administration to approve the treatment for all people with ALS as soon as possible. The Association was an original funder of Amylyx and has...
The brain is indeed a target for treating ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered. This flips a long-standing belief that the disease starts in the spinal motor neurons and any therapy would need to target the spine as the key focus. A new Northwestern study shows the degeneration...
Nelson’s eighth annual ALS walk was a huge success, according to organizer Gord Shannon. More than 175 people from across the West Kootenays came out to walk from Lakeside Park to the Nelson airport and back on June 7, which raised around $40,000 for the ALS Society of Canada. “This...
New York, NY – Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have made a significant breakthrough in Alzheimer’s disease research by identifying a novel way to potentially slow down or even halt disease progression. The study, which focuses on the role of reactive astrocytes and the plexin-B1...
MELBOURNE, Australia and SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Alterity Therapeutics (ASX: ATH, NASDAQ: ATHE) (“Alterity” or “the Company”), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing disease modifying treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, today announced it has successfully completed enrolment in its ATH434-201 Phase 2 clinical trial. ATH434-201 is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study...
MELBOURNE, Australia and SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.— Alterity Therapeutics (ASX: ATH, NASDAQ: ATHE), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing disease modifying treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, today announced that an independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) has completed its second review of trial data and recommended the ATH434-201 Phase 2 study continue as...
MELBOURNE, Australia and SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Alterity Therapeutics (ASX: ATH, NASDAQ: ATHE), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing disease modifying treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, today announced that important new data on its lead drug candidate ATH434 was presented at the World Orphan Drug Congress USA 2024 in Boston, MA....
MELBOURNE, Australia and SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Alterity Therapeutics (ASX: ATH, NASDAQ: ATHE) (“Alterity” or “the Company”), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing disease modifying treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, today announced that analyses on the baseline characteristics related to orthostatic hypotension (OH) from the ATH434-201 randomized, double-blind Phase 2 clinical trial...
MELBOURNE, Australia and SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Alterity Therapeutics (ASX: ATH, NASDAQ: ATHE), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing disease modifying treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, today announced positive interim data from the ATH434-202 open-label Phase 2 clinical trial in patients with multiple system atrophy (MSA). ATH434 has been shown preclinically...