News and Trends 2 Apr 2025
Top biotech deals of March 2025
…together to boost the phase 3 trials of the latter’s AAV-GAD program for Parkinson’s disease. MeiraGTx will bank $200 million upfront. The two will form a joint venture, Hologen Neuro…
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News and Trends 10 Sep 2021
The Top European Biotech Funding Rounds in August
…metabolic diseases involving the liver. And NRG Therapeutics in the UK closed a small seed investment of around £490,000 (€570,000) in a bid to treat Parkinson’s disease. One interesting seed…
In Depth 7 Mar 2024
Can AbbVie’s legacy live beyond its once best-selling drug Humira?
…Cerevel Therapeutics, a biotech focused on developing drugs to treat psychiatric and neurological disorders. However, the deal with Cerevel has spurred antitrust scrutiny as the latter has Parkinson’s and schizophrenia…
Best in Biotech 22 Feb 2024
10 gene therapy companies you should know about
…sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and various other CNS diseases. Many of its programs are derived from its TRACER (Tropism Redirection of AAV by Cell-type-specific Expression of RNA) AAV capsid discovery platform,…
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News and Trends 17 Jul 2017
A Brand New Outlook on Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
…or dopaminergic neurons in the case of Parkinson’s disease. These cells shall then be transplanted into patients to replace their own cells that might be defective, reduced in number, or…
News and Trends 13 Aug 2019
AskBio Acquires Scottish Biotech to Make Gene Therapies More Precise
…the pipeline, including a phase I/II gene therapy for Parkinson’s disease, and another in phase I/II for the rare neuromuscular disease Pompe disease. Synpromics also has ongoing partnerships with big…
Best in Biotech 11 Jul 2024
From data to discovery: Five bioinformatics companies you should know in 2024
…its AI-enabled platform. In the discovery stage, it is developing drugs to treat Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia, psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, Crohn’s disease, and ulcerative colitis. It also has a partnered ALS…
In Depth 9 Nov 2023
Blood tests for Alzheimer’s: a hit or a miss?
…into the market last year, and is used to detect signs of other neurodegenerative diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), dementia, concussions and Parkinson’s disease, as well. Labcorp is among…
News and Trends 17 Jul 2018
Gene Therapy Could Prevent Deadly Brain Disease
…risk for Parkinson’s disease. The study, published in Nature Medicine, showed mice fetuses with Gaucher disease that received an injection of the gene therapy were able to express the missing…
Best in Biotech 28 Dec 2020
A Year to Remember: The Biggest European Biotech News in 2020
…AI chips that rewire us to treat conditions like Parkinson’s disease. The German firm CureVac started the development of a vaccine for the emerging viral disease Covid-19. CureVac’s candidate is…
Weekly Roundup 24 Nov 2023
Viva’s $210 million round; Merck grabs Caraway for $610 million; Genentech signs a deal with NVIDIA
…pipeline was built around four small-molecule-based drug candidates that aim to treat Parkinson’s disease and rare diseases, which are all presently in preclinical stages. Kite and Arcellx continue oncology partnership…
News and Trends 6 Jun 2022
Mitochondria in focus as 4BIO Capital co-leads $30.3M financing in LUCA Science
…is working in the field of mitochondrial biology to treat Parkinson’s, motor neuron disease and other neurodegenerative disorders, received a $5.8M Biomedical Catalyst (BMC) award to fund preclinical development of…
