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SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. — PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (PTC) today announced the receipt of two government grants to support clinical development programs in rare disorders. The U.S. Department of Defense Neurofibromatosis Research Program has awarded an $822,345 grant to support a new open-label Phase 2 clinical trial of PTC’s product candidate...
WASHINGTON — Think your job’s tedious? Try beheading 100 mosquitoes an hour. Gently, no smushing allowed. Malaria parasites lurk in these mosquitoes’ salivary glands, and a small company on the outskirts of the nation’s capital needs them unharmed for a dramatic test — attempting the first live vaccine to fight...
BOSTON, Mass. – PureTech Health plc (Nasdaq: PRTC, LSE: PRTC), a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company dedicated to changing the lives of patients with devastating diseases, today announced that enrollment has been completed in the ELEVATE IPF Phase 2b clinical trial evaluating LYT-100 (deupirfenidone) in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). LYT-100 is...
BOSTON, Mass. – PureTech Health plc (Nasdaq: PRTC, LSE: PRTC), a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company dedicated to changing the lives of patients with devastating diseases, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation for LYT-200 in combination with anti-PD1 therapy for the treatment of...
PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Pyros Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leader in the development of enhanced specialty pharmaceuticals for rare diseases, announced today that VIGPODER™ (vigabatrin) for oral solution, USP, a treatment for appropriate patients with infantile spasms (IS), is now available. As a therapeutically equivalent product, VIGPODER™ is anticipated to offer the...
Miami, Florida – The treatment landscape for multiple myeloma, the second most common blood cancer, is shifting rapidly, with newly diagnosed patients increasingly being treated with a four-part drug combination that includes a new immunotherapy agent. Over the last decade, options have evolved from double, to triple to quadruple combination...