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 Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
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 Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
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 Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
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 Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
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 Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 18 Nov 2022Beyond 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 Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
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 Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
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 Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
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 Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
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 Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
More News! 26 Oct 2022 Neuraxpharm to commercialize device giving early warning of epileptic seizures A wearable medical device that can give an early warning of an epileptic seizure has been developed by medical device startup, mjn-neuro. Central nervous system (CNS) specialist Neuraxpharm Group entered the digital health market by signing a commercialization agreement with the developer for mjn-SERAS with exclusivity in Europe. With this agreement, Neuraxpharm increases its end-to-end […] October 26, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 12 Oct 2022 Ascidian Therapeutics launches with $50M to rewrite RNA Ascidian Therapeutics, a biotechnology company focused on treating human diseases by rewriting RNA, has been launched. With an initial focus on replacing mutated exons at the RNA level, Ascidian’s technology enables therapeutic targeting of large genes and genes with high mutational variance while maintaining native gene expression patterns and levels. This approach is designed to […] October 12, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email