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Heidelberg, Germany – FundaMental Pharma GmbH, a neuroscience company developing first-in-class small molecule inhibitors for treatment of a range of neurodegenerative diseases, today announces the publication of a groundbreaking study by Neurobiologists in Heidelberg using FundaMental Pharma’s small molecule TwinF interface inhibitor, FP802. The study provides seminal preclinical proof-of-concept data...
SAINT JOHN – With a pile of wet suds and some dirty cars, a collision repair shop hopes to set a Guinness World Record and help find a cure for cystic fibrosis. King CarStar Collision, on Rothesay Avenue, will join 80 other franchise locations in a national car wash Saturday...
A golf tournament and banquet Saturday will memorialize a former University of Oklahoma student and benefit a scholarship named in his honor. Events in A Servant’s Heart Weekend are in memory of William “Billy” Khourie II. The 22-year-old died Jan. 6 from a head injury he sustained while snowboarding in...
The Sabo family of Rutherford will host its third-annual Fragile X benefit at Yogi Berra Stadium in Montclair Thursday, June 25. The benefit will begin with a barbecue at 6 p.m. Then at 7:05 p.m., the New Jersey Jackals will take on the Worcester Tornadoes. Tickets for the baseball game...
A fundraiser will be held Thursday for Zachary Ghazali, a 17-year-old LaSalle boy who travels to China for medical treatment of a rare and terminal genetic disorder that attacks the immune system. Ghazali suffers from the incurable Friedreich’s ataxia, which progressively sabotages the co-ordination of the arms and legs, diminishes...
MISSOULA, Mont.— FYR Bio (“FYR”), a leader in liquid-biopsy precision medicine for neuro-oncology, today announced a collaboration with NuvOx Therapeutics, Inc. (“NuvOx”) supported by a two-year $1,976,897 Direct-to-Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The grant, titled “Liquid Biopsy in Glioblastoma Treated with Chemoradiation and an...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. —  G1 Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: GTHX), a commercial-stage oncology company, today announced that the independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) recommended continuation of the pivotal Phase 3 trial (PRESERVE 2), evaluating trilaciclib in combination with gemcitabine and carboplatin for the first line treatment of metastatic triple negative...
Reston, VA — PET imaging with 68Ga-FAPI can more effectively detect and stage pancreatic cancer as compared with 18F-FDG imaging or contrast-enhanced CT, according to new research published in the December issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. In a head-to-head study, 68Ga-FAPI detected more pancreatic tumors on a per-lesion, per-patient, or per-region...
Gabbie Strauss will slowly die from the inside out if a cure for an extremely rare disease can’t be found. The 19-month-old infant may look the picture of perfect health, but sadly that’s not the case. Gabbie is suffering from cystinosis, an incurable metabolic disease where the amino acid cystine...