Neurological disorders Archives

News and Trends 9 Jan 2023

STALICLA signs agreement with Novartis on neurodevelopmental disorders

STALICLA SA, a clinical-stage biotech company advancing the first precision neurobiology platform for patients with neurodevelopmental disorders, has entered into an exclusive in-licensing agreement with Novartis to develop mavoglurant as a treatment for substance-use disorder and neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). Mavoglurant has previously been tested in more than 1,800 patients and demonstrated a good safety and […]

January 9, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 20 Dec 2022

Watch: IRLAB CEO Richard Godfrey

IRLAB discovers and develops novel treatments of Parkinson’s disease and other CNS disorders. The company’s most advanced drug candidates, mesdopetam (IRL790) and pirepemat (IRL752), are in phase IIb and are designed to treat some of the most difficult symptoms related to Parkinson’s disease. In 2021, Ipsen, a specialty pharma company, acquired exclusive global rights to […]

December 20, 2022 - 1 minutemin - By Jim Cornall

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 competition to accelerate development of a first-in-class disease modifying therapy for Huntington’s disease. Working in collaboration with Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC), Alchemab is carrying out preclinical studies to progress its panel of antibodies towards first […]

December 16, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 15 Dec 2022

Charcot-Marie-Tooth study to get $250K grant

The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) and Charcot-Marie-Tooth Research Foundation (CMTRF) have announced joint funding for a study by Alessandra Bolino at San Raffaele Hospital (Ospedale San Raffaele), Italy, on restoring membrane trafficking in Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) neuropathies with aberrant myelin. This will be a three-year study, with the grant totaling $263,450. “We at the Muscular Dystrophy […]

December 15, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 15 Dec 2022

EMA gives Myrtelle’s Canavan disease gene therapy candidate OD designation

Myrtelle Inc., a clinical stage gene therapy company, has announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted orphan drug (OD) designation for rAAV-Olig001-ASPA, the company’s lead gene therapy product candidate for the treatment of Canavan disease (CD). EMA OD designation’s aim is to encourage the development of treatments for life-threatening rare conditions by providing […]

December 15, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Dec 2022

PrecisionLife to work on R&D with Ono Pharmaceutical

PrecisionLife Limited has entered into a multi-target discovery and validation partnership with Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. The R&D collaboration will leverage PrecisionLife’s combinatorial analytics-generated insights to identify novel therapeutic targets and patient stratification biomarkers in central nervous system (CNS) disorders for development by Ono. PrecisionLife analyzes multi-modal datasets including genomic, clinical, and epidemiological data to […]

December 14, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 30 Nov 2022

bit.bio expands portfolio for drug discovery in neurodegenerative and neurological diseases

Cell coding company bit.bio has made three additions to its product portfolio: ioGlutamatergic Neurons MAPT N279K and ioGlutamatergic Neurons MAPT P301S disease models, and early access to its ioGABAergic Neurons. This expands bit.bio’s central nervous system (CNS) portfolio to four disease models and three cell types. bit.bio’s cell products are reprogrammed from human induced pluripotent […]

November 30, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 18 Nov 2022

Beyond Biotech podcast 23: World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, PsychoGenics

This week, we have three interviews on the theme of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), to mark World Antimicrobial Awareness Week. We spoke with Holger Zimmermann, CEO of anti-infectives company AiCuris; Neil Clark, CEO of Destiny Pharma, and Fredrik Almqvist, co-founder of QureTech Bio. We also have an interview with the chief scientific officer at PsychoGenics, Mark Varney. […]

November 18, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

More News! 14 Nov 2022

Minoryx and Neuraxpharm form alliance to get rights to new therapy for rare CNS disease

Minoryx Therapeutics and Neuraxpharm Group have announced a strategic alliance for the European rights to a new therapy for rare central nervous system (CNS) disease. The companies have entered into a license agreement for leriglitazone, currently under European Medicines Agency (EMA) review for the orphan indication X-linked Adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD). Under the agreement, Minoryx grants Neuraxpharm […]

November 14, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 10 Nov 2022

Minoryx and Neuraxpharm announce license agreement to further X-ALD treatment

Minoryx Therapeutics and Neuraxpharm Group have announced the completion of a strategic license agreement. Minoryx is a biotech company that focuses on the development of treatments for orphan central nervous system (CNS) disorders while the Neuraxpharm Group is a pharmaceutical company focused on CNS therapies. Under the agreement, Minoryx grants Neuraxpharm exclusive European rights to […]

November 10, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

More News! 9 Nov 2022

PrecisionLife supports Sosei Heptares to treat chronic diseases in more personalized way

PrecisionLife, developers of precision medicine for chronic diseases, will be supporting biopharmaceutical group, Sosei Heptares, to develop better, more personalized treatment options. Specifically, global techbio PrecisionLife, will assess the precision medicine potential of a neuroscience target nominated by Sosei Heptares, that specializes in structure-based drug design targeting G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Sosei Heptares will leverage […]

November 9, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 2 Nov 2022

Alkermes to separate oncology business

Alkermes plc is to explore separating its commercial-stage neuroscience business and development-stage oncology business. The company, its board and external financial and legal advisors plan to explore a separation of the oncology business into an independent, publicly-traded company (Oncology Co.) as part of an ongoing review of strategic alternatives for the oncology business. Alkermes said […]

November 2, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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