Boston — Ascidian Therapeutics, a biotechnology company focused on treating human diseases by rewriting RNA, announced the appointment of Jay A. Barth, M.D., as Chief Medical Officer (CMO). With 25 years of experience in drug development and medical affairs, and a focus in gene therapy and rare diseases, Dr. Barth...
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HANGZHOU and SHAOXING, China — Ascletis Pharma Inc. (HKEX: 1672, “Ascletis”) today announces late-breaking abstract poster presentation of interim results from Phase IIb expansion cohort of ASC22 (Envafolimab) for functional cure of chronic hepatitis B (CHB), and abstract poster presentation of Phase I study results of ASC41 for treatment of...
Washington DC – Ahead of the 65th Annual Meeting and Exposition of the American Society of Hematology, taking place Dec. 9 to 12, event organizers on Tuesday released late-breaking abstracts providing an early view of some of the most high-impact studies in blood disorders to be presented at the conference....
CINCINNATI, Ohio — Asha Therapeutics (Asha), a life sciences company designing de novo disease modifying medicines for neurodegenerative diseases with high unmet medical need, announced today the nomination of a development candidate, ASHA-624 targeting SARM1 as a potential disease modifying therapy for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) with additional indications in...
SHANGHAI, China — Asieris Pharmaceuticals (Stock Code: 688176.SH), a global biopharmaceutical company specializing in discovering, developing, and commercializing innovative drugs for the treatment of genitourinary tumors and other related diseases, announced that the interim analysis data from the Phase II clinical trial of oral APL-1202 in combination with PD-1 inhibitor...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc. (AskBio), a wholly owned and independently operated subsidiary of Bayer AG, announced that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared its Investigational New Drug (IND) application for LION-101 to proceed in a Phase 1/2 clinical study. LION-101 is a novel recombinant adeno-associated...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc. (AskBio), a wholly owned and independently operated subsidiary of Bayer AG, announced today that the European Commission (EC) has granted orphan drug designation for AB-1003 (also known as LION-101)* for the treatment of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD). AB-1003 is a novel investigational recombinant adeno-associated...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Aspen Neuroscience Inc. announced that the first patient has been dosed in the ASPIRO trial, a Phase 1/2a open label clinical trial to assess safety and tolerability of ANPD001, an autologous, dopaminergic neuron cell replacement therapy for participants with moderate to severe Parkinson’s disease (PD). Aspen Neuroscience...
Worcester, MA — Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. (OTC:ACTC.PK) and its collaborators at OHSU reported today the long-term safety and efficacy of human embryonic stem cell (hESC)-derived retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) produced under manufacturing conditions suitable for human clinical trials. Two important early potential hESC applications are the use of RPE...
Paris, France – The cause of Parkinson’s disease (PD), the second most frequent neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s disease, is unknown, but in most cases it is believed to involve a combination of environmental risk factors and genetic susceptibility. Laboratory studies in rats have shown that injecting the insecticide rotenone leads...