REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated (NASDAQ: CORT), a commercial-stage company engaged in the discovery and development of medications to treat severe endocrinologic, oncologic, metabolic and neurologic disorders by modulating the effects of the hormone cortisol, has submitted a Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) to the European Medicines Agency (EMA)...
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DAZALS did not meet its primary endpoint of improved outcome in the ALS Functional Rating Scale-Revised (ALSFRS-R) in patients who received dazucorilant compared to patients who received placebo DAZALS met its secondary endpoint of improved overall survival at week 24 of the study in patients who received 300 mg of...
Ithaca, NY – Cornell University scientists have designed a way to “cloak” proteins in a generalized technique that could lead to repurposing things like antibodies for biological research and therapeutic applications. The “cloaked” proteins can be captured by lipid nanoparticles, which are akin to tiny bubbles of fat. These bubbles...
SHANGHAI, China — CorrectSequence Therapeutics Co., Ltd. (Correctseq), a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering transformer Base Editing (tBE) technology for the treatment of severe diseases, today announced the successful treatment of the first sickle cell disease (SCD) patient using its high-precision base-editing therapy CS-101. The breakthrough was achieved in an Investigator-Initiated Trial (IIT) conducted in...
BURLINGAME, Calif. — Corvus Pharmaceuticals, Inc (NASDAQ: CRVS), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Orphan Drug Designation for soquelitinib for the treatment of T-cell lymphoma. Soquelitinib, the Company’s lead ITK inhibitor candidate, is expected to advance into a Phase 3 registrational...
Changsha, China – New research published in Arthritis & Rheumatology suggests that for people overweight or with obesity who also have knee or hip osteoarthritis, a slow-to-moderate—but not fast—rate of weight loss caused by anti-obesity medications may lower their risk of premature death. Among 6,524 participants with knee or hip...
San Francisco, Calif. – A team of international research institutions, led by UC San Francisco, has completed the first large-scale study of posterior cortical atrophy, a baffling constellation of visuospatial symptoms that present as the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. These symptoms occur in up to 10% of cases of...
Neurological diseases including Parkinson’s, Tourette’s, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Alzheimer’s, and schizophrenia are all associated with alterations in dopamine-driven function involving the dopamine transporter (DAT). Research published today in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience suggests that a number of estrogens acting through their receptors affect the DAT, which...
Boston, Mass. – In the early 1990s, Mike McCune and his colleagues thought they’d found a path to a one-time HIV treatment for babies: genetically modifying hematopoietic stem cells to suppress the virus and then transplanting them into the bone marrow. But the treatment never made it to clinical trials....
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Count Me In, a patient-partnered research initiative led by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is launching a new project focused on translocation renal cell carcinoma (tRCC), a rare and aggressive form of kidney cancer. The effort will engage with tRCC patients,...