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News and Trends 16 Dec 2022

Alchemab Therapeutics receives £1.7M grant to work on therapy for Huntington’s disease

Alchemab Therapeutics has been awarded a grant of £1.7 million ($2 million) from Innovate UK’s Biomedical Catalyst (BMC) 2022 funding…

December 16, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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News and Trends 24 Aug 2022

Clearance given to clinical trial with potential to change course of brain disease

A trial to look at gene therapy, BV-01, for Huntington’s Disease has been given the go ahead to take place…

August 24, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 5 Jun 2020

Israeli-Dutch Biotech Raises €55M to Fight Huntington’s Disease and ALS

Prilenia Therapeutics has raised €55M in Series A funding to launch late-stage clinical trials of its small molecule candidate drug…

June 5, 2020 - 3 minutesmins - By Helen Albert

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Startup Scout 29 Mar 2019

This Biotech Repurposes Drugs to Fight Huntington’s Disease

Barcelona-based SOM Biotech is developing treatments for incurable diseases such as Huntington’s disease with drugs that are already on the…

March 29, 2019 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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News and Trends 23 Jan 2019

Update: The FDA Green-lights Clinical Trials for Huntington’s Disease Gene Therapy

Update (23/01/2019): The FDA has given uniQure regulatory clearance to begin a phase I/II trial of its gene therapy for…

January 23, 2019 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

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News and Trends 15 Jan 2019

Huntington’s Could Be Diagnosed in Five Minutes With This Lab-on-a-Chip

Using a lab-on-a-chip device, Swiss scientists have found a way to diagnose the neurodegenerative condition Huntington's disease from DNA in…

January 15, 2019 - 2 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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News and Trends 8 Nov 2018

Epigenetics Test Can Distinguish Between Huntington’s Disease Stages

A study run by Oxford BioDynamics suggests that we could predict Huntington's more easily by analyzing epigenetic changes in the…

November 8, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 3 May 2018

World’s First Gene Therapy Developer Raises $128M for Hemophilia and Huntington’s

uniQure has raised a substantial public offering on the NASDAQ. The funding could help the Dutch biotech advance two new gene…

May 3, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik

Startup Scout 13 Apr 2018

This Israeli Biotech Targets Protein Translation to Fight Disease

Today, we're taking a look at Anima Biotech, an Israeli company that is developing a new class of drugs that…

April 13, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik

More News! 28 Feb 2018

Could A More Precise CRISPR/Cas9 System Treat Huntington’s Disease?

Polish researchers tested a new variant of CRISPR/Cas9 that increases the gene-editing system's precision in targeting specific DNA sequences, such…

February 28, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik

News and Trends 28 Feb 2018

Like Finding a Needle in a Haystack: How Are Biotechs Fighting Rare Diseases?

Rare diseases affect fewer than 1 in 2,000 people in Europe and less than 200,000 Americans at any given time.…

February 28, 2018 - 8 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 20 Nov 2017

British and German Scientists Chuck Proteins in the Trash to Uncover their Function

Trim-Away removes a protein to uncover its true function, which will support disease research and potentially the development of new therapies.…

November 20, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 28 Feb 2017

It’s Global Rare Disease Day! What Cures is Biotech Cooking Up?

We've compiled a list of some of the latest advances of biotech in the field of rare disease to contribute…

February 28, 2017 - 5 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

Interview 9 Jan 2017

After a Rough Year, uniQure CMO discusses a Comeback

Last year was a bad year for biotech as an industry, but it was particularly bad for uniQure. Here's what…

January 9, 2017 - 4 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 17 Nov 2016

UniQure takes an axe to its Pipeline and Workforce in new R&D Strategy

UniQure just announced a new R&D plan designed to save up to €27M over the next two years. Will the…

November 17, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 9 Jun 2016

Brain Cell Transplant could help with incurable Neurodegenerative Disease

Researchers from Copenhagen and the US have succeeded in slowing the progression of Huntington's disease in mice with a transplant…

June 9, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 24 Nov 2015

2015 Review: What Exciting Developments Have Been Made in Neurodegenerative Disease?

Since both Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's combined affect up to 50 million people worldwide, it is no wonder this new…

November 24, 2015 - 9 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 15 Aug 2014

Active Biotech and Teva together in a Phase II clinical trial against Huntington’s disease

Active Biotech announced today that its partner Teva Pharmaceutical will initiate a phase II clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy…

August 15, 2014 - 1 minutemin - By Joachim Eeckhout

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