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New avenues for rare disease treatment

Drug Target Review

More than 7,000 rare diseases – conditions that affect fewer than 1 in 2,000 people – have been identified, and1 in 17 people will develop a rare disease in their lifetime, with children disproportionately affected. Most of these conditions are genetic in origin and the majority have no effective treatment.

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AlgoTherapeutix Receives Regulatory Approval to Initiate Clinical Development of ATX01

The Pharma Data

AlgoTherapeutix recently raised a 12M€ Series A that will fund the Phase 1 and 2 clinical development of ATX01. About AlgoTherapeutix AlgoTx was founded in 2018 by Stéphane Thiroloix and Olivier Bohuon to develop topical treatments for complex pain and was incubated by Paris Biotech Santé. 15, 2020 07:15 UTC.

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Taking a new approach to tackle neurodegenerative diseases

Drug Discovery World

Oligomerix’s portfolio of compounds is expected to provide a potentially lower-cost treatment alternative and/or complement to the newly emerging high-cost therapeutic options such as the monoclonal antibody products. Global dementia prevalence is expected to increase to 152 million in 2050, a 204% increase compared to 2018.

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Three trends in the antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) market 

Drug Discovery World

According to NCBI, most of the ADCs developed so far are for use in the treatment of cancer, but there is plenty of potential for using ADCs to treat other diseases 1. To overcome this challenge, Synaffix has developed an innovative technology platform that can rapidly and efficiently convert any antibody into an ADC.

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Macrocyclization via Ring-Closing Metathesis in Drug Discovery & Process Chemistry

Drug Hunter

Recent Applications of Ring-Closing Metathesis in Drug Discovery and Development A selection of representative macrocycles in drug discovery where ring-closing metathesis has been applied to their synthesis are shown below, highlighting chemically diverse macrocycles from programs that have reached clinical development.

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Hummingbird Bioscience Announces Collaboration with Tempus to Harness AI-driven Precision Medicine to Accelerate Clinical Development of HMBD-001 In HER3 Driven Cancers

The Pharma Data

Cancer Research UK has partnered with Hummingbird Bioscience to advance this novel antibody drug into clinical trials for the treatment of HER3-driven cancer. Hummingbird Bioscience is an innovative clinical-stage biotech company focused on developing revolutionary therapies against hard-to-drug targets for improved treatment outcomes.

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Women in Stem with Dr Christine Schuberth-Wagner

Drug Target Review

This multi-layered mechanism contributes to the development of immunoresistance against current standard-of-care treatments such as checkpoint inhibitors, chemotherapy, or antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs). Visugromab is a monoclonal antibody – a treatment modality that has been extensively studied and de-risked.

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