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BOSTON, Mass. — Sionna Therapeutics, a life sciences company dedicated to developing highly effective and differentiated treatments for cystic fibrosis (CF), today announced that the first healthy subject has been dosed in a Phase 1 clinical trial of SION-109 following clearance of its Investigational New Drug application (IND) by the...
BOSTON — Sionna Therapeutics, a clinical-stage life sciences company dedicated to developing highly effective and differentiated treatments for cystic fibrosis (CF), today announced the presentation of preclinical data on highly potent Series 2 nucleotide binding domain-1 (NBD1) stabilizers, SION-719 and SION-451. These data show that SION-719 and SION-451 fully restore...
SEOUL, Korea – SK bioscience and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) announced today that the typhoid conjugate vaccine developed by SK bioscience with technology transfer from IVI has achieved the World Health Organization prequalification (PQ), which paves the way for public procurement of the vaccine by UN organizations and gives a...
WALTHAM, Mass.— Skyhawk Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel small molecule RNA splicing modifiers, today announced that the Phase 1 multiple ascending dose (MAD) portion of its Phase 1 clinical study has now begun in Australia for the company’s SKY-0515 small molecule candidate targeting Huntington’s disease (HD). Huntington’s...
Experts have said they may develop a more effective kit for detecting sleeping sickness and medication against the condition in the next three years. Scientists at the Institute of Primate Research (IPR) in Nairobi and their counterparts from the European Union are currently working on what they say are more...
For more than 3000 years, hundreds of millions of people have died or been left permanently scarred or blind by the relentless, incurable disease called smallpox. In 1967, Dr. D.A. Henderson became director of a worldwide campaign to eliminate this disease from the face of the Earth. SMALLPOX—THE DEATH OF...
A study of patients who were smokers at the time of early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) diagnosis revealed possible links to improved survival outcomes with smoking cessation in this population. The study results were reported in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. This prospective, observational study was conducted at the...