LA JOLLA, CA — Nerve cells in the brain demand an enormous amount of energy to survive and maintain their connections for communicating with other nerve cells. In Alzheimer’s disease, the ability to make energy is compromised, and the connections between nerve cells (called synapses) eventually come apart and wither,...
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SAN FRANCISCO – Real Chemistry, a leading provider of data-driven, tech-enabled communication and marketing solutions for the health care sector, announced that it is now a Veeva Global Content Partner. Veeva Systems is the global leader in cloud software for the life sciences industry, including the majority of Real Chemistry’s...
Amsterdam, Netherlands – Findings from a new study in the Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases, published by IOS Press, demonstrate the effectiveness of disease-modifying treatments (DMTs) in infants with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). The study’s results add further support for gene therapy as a treatment modality that can deliver durable transformative...
NORFOLK, Va. — ReAlta Life Sciences, Inc., a mid-stage clinical biotech company dedicated to saving lives by rebalancing the inflammatory response to address life-threatening diseases, today announced enrollment of the first patient in a Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of RLS-0071, an investigational new drug based...
PLANO, Texas – Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: RETA) (“Reata,” the “Company,” or “we”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it received a communication from the Division of Neurology Products 1 (“Division”) of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) stating that, after a preliminary review of briefing materials for...
PLANO, Texas – Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: RETA) (“Reata,” the “Company,” or “we”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it has submitted a New Drug Application (“NDA”) for bardoxolone methyl (“bardoxolone”) for the treatment of chronic kidney disease (“CKD”) caused by Alport syndrome to the U.S. Food and Drug...
Shares of Reata Pharmaceuticals Inc (RETA.O) tripled in value on Wednesday after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved its rare disease drug, ending years of uncertainty over its future.
MILAN – Italian pharmaceutical group Recordati (RECI.MI) has signed an agreement to buy UK-headquartered EUSA Pharma for an enterprise value of 750 million euros ($847 million) to boost its rare disease products portfolio, it said in a statement on Friday. EUSA Pharma, founded in 2015 and controlled by funds managed by...
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Recursion, a leading clinical stage TechBio company decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery, today announced it has signed an agreement with Bayer AG to in-license a new chemical entity that emerged from the companies’ fibrosis research collaboration. The compound represents a novel approach to treating...
TEL-AVIV, Israel and RALEIGH, N.C. — RedHill Biopharma Ltd. a specialty biopharmaceutical company, today announced that its two novel, oral host-directed investigational drugs, opaganib and RHB-107 (upamostat) demonstrated robust synergistic effect when combined individually with remdesivir (Veklury), significantly improving viral inhibition while maintaining cell viability, in a new U.S. Army-funded...